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M E R A T R P E O P O L I T A N O WEEK FOUR: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

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The story of Romeo and Juliet is pure fiction, but there was a prominent family in Elizabethan England named Montague. In fact, they were distant relatives FUN FACT of Shakespeare’s! CREATE YOUR OWN MASK In the first act of Roméo et Juliette, the title characters meet at a masked ball. Use the forms below and on the next page to design your own masks. You can even cut them out and use string to tie them around your face.

Gounod’s opera is one of many adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet— others include the opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini, the ballet FUN FACT Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, and the Broadway musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents. Even Disney’s High School Musical was inspired by this classic story—although it features a happy ending instead of the play’s famously tragic final scene. Even though the story of Romeo and Juliet is fiction, the town of Verona (where it is set) receives thousands of letters every year addressed to Juliet. Today, a group of FUN FACT people called the Juliet Club answers each letter by hand. You can even visit them online at julietclub.com.