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How Does Romeo And Juliet Make Stage Directions
Rewriting the staging directions and dialogue for a scene in one of the most famous plays ever written was a bit tricky, but we soon got the hang of it. The stage is called the Globe Theater and Shakespeare perform mostly all of his plays there. The stage was a hexagonal shape that have pillars located on the side so that the characters can hide behind them or they are used for decoration in the scene. There are also trap doors that are used so that some characters can make dramatic entrances. The story of Romeo and Juliet set up the scenes so that it looked like a real house or garden by having furniture or plants. The scene we chose to redirect is the famous comedic scene of when the nurse taunts Juliet about the news from her true love Romeo. The Capulet's live in a mansion type house and the stage would probably be set up to resemble one of the rooms such as Juliet’s Bedroom or The kitchen by adding props and special effects to the scene. When Juliet and the nurse enter the scene, Juliet would enter and go center …show more content…
Stage directions can express feelings, actions, emotions, and can represent how a character is really displayed. The Globe Theater is one of the most famous theaters in the world and it's where William Shakespeare performed his well-known play “ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”. In the play there are many stage entrances where people come from backstage, enter through trap doors, or run around the stage like hooligans just to give people the effect of how the play is set up if it was a true story. Romeo and Juliet is a very elegant and exquisite play that has been performed many times over the years and people still enjoy it today. Hopefully more versions will be made in the future that will make it more modern with better actors and with more modern technology involved with special effects, but nothing will ever top the original “ Romeo and Juliet

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