Despite being originally published during the late 1590’s, Romeo and Juliet is still remarkably well known today. How did a play remain prominent for over four centuries? The tale of the two star-crossed lovers dying at the mercy of unfortunate circumstances is still considered one of the greatest literary works of all time due to its unique plot, use of diverse characters and how well written it is.…
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The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet is the classic play written by William Shakespeare that follows two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who are mortal enemies that fall in love with each other. The protagonists try to keep their love hidden from their families, but not forgotten by themselves. This play of love and passion has been prototyped countless times on the silver screen, as it is the greatest love story ever told. The most well-known movie versions of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo And Juliet are Franco Zeffirelli’s (1968) Romeo and Juliet , and Baz Luhrmann's (1996) Romeo + Juliet. Both versions captured the main essence of the original play with Zefferelli's staying true to its source, while Luhrmann’s takes a more modern,…
The star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, are presented in two famous movie productions. The first directed by Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996. The updated Luhrmann picture best captures the essence of Shakespeare for the present day viewer. Through the use of modernisation and location, while preserving Shakespearean language, to capture the audience. Equally Zeffirelli’s more historical interpretation show cases the original medieval architecture the Shakespeare contemplated.…
In Act two, Scene two, Juliet proclaims to Romeo, “A thousand times good night!” Romeo then responds to Juliet by saying, “A thousand times the worse to want thy light.” Both Romeo and Juliet clearly want the night more than the day in order to keep their passionate love a secret. This is seen when Romeo responds to Juliet, “A thousand times the worse to want thy light.” These lines, with the light and dark contrast, heighten the elements of danger and safety because the night is what protects their secret love, whereas the daylight threatens to reveal it. If someone were to see them together and in love, they could easily be forced apart by their respective families and never see each other again.…
When hearing about the new modern day Romeo and Juliet my heart sank thinking about another boring old fashioned love story that has a reasonably unhappy ending (not something you want to waste 2 hours of your life on). But amazingly, when seeing the new trailer, I automatically got drawn in on this new phenomenon – shocking, I know.…
Lastly, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, shows us characters that are unbalanced eventually end up dead. Romeo has a lot of passion which leads to his death. Tybalt’s abundance of hatred leads to his demise. Lastly, Juliet’s hasty decisions making leads to her perishing. Balance in one’s life is an important piece of a stable life.…
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story by Shakespeare. It is about a young man name Romeo and a young woman named Juliet who fall madly in love with each other although their families are bitter enemies. Juliet is 13 and Romeo is 16. One is adult-like and the other is innocent. Yet still both have a connection and love each other. In the book Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are both similar, yet have their differences.…
From the very first, textbook editions of Shakespeare have been, "badly edited, ineptly glossed, and inexcusably bowdlerized" (Levin, 1976). What is studied in schools is a version, or rather a "perversion" of Shakespeare controlled by narrow religious, sexual, racial, and social interests. A fear of laughter and cultural elitism, among other things, informs the choice of "Romeo and Juliet,""Julius Caesar,""Macbeth," and "Hamlet" for inclusion in the current high school curricula. An alternative curriculum, which might be called "The Other Shakespeare," could represent the balance of tragedy, history, comedy, and romance that readers and viewers have come to expect since the publication of the first folio. The purpose of such a curriculum would…
Comparison of the Settings and the moods of the characters between the play and movie version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet…
In this presentation I will be talking about the changes made to the ending (which is Act 5 Scene 3) of Romeo and Juliet in 1700s compare to the changes made in the Baz Luhrman film version of the play. The plot of both were actually similarly the same, however the setting was a lot different and I will be talking about some of the main important changes made to the setting of the movie and of course most importantly the topic which my presentation is mainly on which is Alternate Endings.…
In Zeffirelli’s version the lovers lovingly danced and kissed to express their love for one another. Romeo and Juliet would kiss each other secretly away from everyone and only her nurse would know and keep it a secret. They met at a party when a guy was singing and they were across each other. The backgrounds of the scenes are more ancient and less colorful.…
William Shakespeare is known as the literary genius behind the classic play Romeo and Juliet. However, his play is not as original as many people may think it is. Thirty years prior to Romeo and Juliet, the play Romeus and Juliet was written; Pyramus and Thisbe was written even earlier. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare reveals to his audience that love is a powerful force that cannot be denied, which is also shown in the films West Side Story, Gnomeo and Juliet, Romeo + Juliet, and Shakespeare in Love.…
There have been, throughout time, countless new versions of William´s Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”: Nevertheless, Baz Lurhmann directed a very modern version of this famous play, replacing daggers by guns and horses by cars, and even more.…