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Sacred Heart Catholic High School Liverpool Road Merseyside Centre Number: 34631 Name: Laura Bowes Date: December/January 2002-3 Title: How does Shakespeare present different aspects of familial love in 'Romeo and Juliet'? Stimulus: Introduction to text Teacher plan At the time Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, familial love was very different to what we know it as today. Parents did not have a close relationship with their children. A nurse was often hired by the upper classes to breast feed their children because it was not accepted in polite society. Fathers often arranged marriages for their daughters, who would usually only be about twelve or thirteen years old, Marriages often lacked love. Children were used by upper classes to make financial agreements etc. This is probably why children in the upper classes were often closer to their nurses than their parents. Family relations today are often very different from the family relations in Romeo and Juliet. Parents are...

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