William Shakespeare, an Elizabethan playwright, is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and is sometimes referred to as “The Bard of Avon”. His plays were written to entertain the working class audience of the time and it is in this spirit that Baz Lurhmann uses a wide range of theatrical techniques to make his work accessible to today’s audience.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is as tragedy in five acts which tells the story of the doomed love affair of two teenagers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Both are only children of two wealthy but feuding families in the sixteenth centaury Verona. They meet fall in love, marry, and die within the short