How Shakespeare presents Romeo, and how the character develops across the text: from Rosaline's lovesick admirer to Juliet's husband, Tybalt's killer and a tragic hero who defies the stars.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'O brawling love! O loving hate!', 'O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!', 'It is the east, and Juliet is the sun', 'Thy beauty hath made me effeminate', 'fire-eyed fury be my conduct now', 'O, I am fortune's fool!', 'Then I defy you, stars!', 'Thus with a kiss I die'.
Context: the Petrarchan lover, and Romeo as a tragic hero whose haste is his flaw.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
