Romeo and Juliet

Using your senses to make sense of Shakespeare

Study Guides

From Needlework (Depicting the Five Senses) Art Institute of Chicago

The Party

(Act 1, Scene 5)

Listen, look and move with the text to discover the characters’ actions.


Jean Loughlin/used by permission

The Balcony

(Act 2, Scene 2)

How to play with long speeches and understand them as easily as in short conversations.


Jennifer Willison (left), Jonathan Pereira (right), in Romeo and Juliet. Photography © Suzanne Plunkett

The Good-Bye

(Act 3, Scene 5)

Using your sense of style to discover the language of the head and the language of the heart.