2. Warm up: Attempt to read a section of the
primary source. What is this? What do you
think it was used for? Can you connect it to
anything we’ve read in Romeo and Juliet?
Today’sobjective is to read Act II Scenes i-ii,
discuss the courting customs of Elizabethan
England, and answer written questions
regarding literary devices and theme.
3. Make note of any compliments that seem as
if they could from a handbook such as The
Mysteries of Love: The Art of Wooing and
Complimenting.
4. In pairs, discuss the compliments you found
in the reading. Next write think of any
modern day forms of such texts. Where do
young people learn to woo one another
today? Are these texts useful or harmful?
Explain.
