What is the best way to remember and memorize lines in romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

Question

I need to memorize the princes speech in Act 1. How should i go about memorizing this

Answer 1

Well, I had to memorize a speech for a Dramatics Guild Audition and these are some of the tips they gave us...

1. Understand the meaning of your speech. How does it affect the character?

2.Read it over and over again. Don't start with memorizing it just yet.

3. Do some research about the play. It may help.

4. Try watching some videos from the movie. See how they do they're facial expressions and take note on how they may feel.

5. Don't cram!!! Read the whole thing to yourself at least three times a day before starting to recite without reading.

Hope this is helpful!! Good Luck

Answer 2

if you actually take the time to understand what he is saying and not just memorize it word for word....what is he saying, who is he talking to...give yourself hand guestures and movements that coordinate...it's a speech from a prince, make it a performance, make it seem staged, like he's reading from a teleprompter. the rhyming couplets will help memorize it easier, that's why shakespeare wrote that way (his actors would each play several roles in the play, and would often perform several different plays over the course of a week, so they had to have easy ways to remember!)

say the first line over and over, then add the second until you can do it without looking, then say 1-2-3, then 1-2-3-4...got it?

Answer 3

Any time you face rote memorization the best approach is "Vanishing Prompt." Now, to go about it, copy the material to be memorized onto paper leaving a great deal of space between words. You may want to accomplish this one or two lines at a time rather than the whole at one time. Ok, write out a line leaving space between your words. Begin repeating what you have in front of you in sing-song, two or three word chunks. Take several pieces of blank paper (note cards work well) and after repeating the entire piece several times begin covering words up. As you continue, you should be able to say the entire line or section even though some of it is covered. Continue repeating it and covering more of it up until you have it down and all of the words are covered--hence your prompt has vanished.

Answer 4

Two things that always help me if I am having trouble are:

1. Turn it into a song -- Shakespeare already has rhythm to it but go ahead and insert the words into your favorite style of music and sing it over and over.

2. Before you go to bed each night...right before you turn out the lights, read the scene once or twice then in the morning before you do anything else read the scene again once or twice. Somehow your brain is more susceptable to learning and retaining at these times.

Have fun!

Answer 5

When I did acting I would read my lines over and over again.. I would start with the first sentence and read it over and over again till I had it memorized then I would add the second sentence and so forth till I had the whole thing memorized!


Good Luck!

Answer 6

Read it out loud, repeat it out loud, repeat it, do it without the book, learn it. You only need to memorise one speech, actors have to memorise the entire play. You should be able to learn a speech of twenty or so lines in about an hour.

Answer 7

rehearse it with somebody you like, have them quiz you on your lines, and read it last thing before you go to sleep every night