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Published: 01.06.2002.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare', 1.
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27.Look back over the parts of the play we have studied (up to Act III, Scene ii), and quote at least 4 references to darkness or the night. Indicate the speaker, and the act, scene, and line numbers in each case. Make sure that you take examples from at least three different speakers and three different situations.
Reference to darkness or night was made when Montague said to Benvolio:
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest east begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora?s bed,
Away from light steals home my heavy son,
And private in his chamber pens himself,…

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