Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families
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Shakespeare is a great playwright‚ and sonneteer‚ his work is admired by many people world wide and he proves to have been very good with his work on love in his writings. His sonnets are special‚ in that the overall perspective is not expected to be given in such a way; meaning that readers would expect that a male poet of his time would give more attention to the love of the female rather than writing 126 out of 154 sonnets for a young man more or less. For this paper I will be presenting the three
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How does Shakespeare present Romeo before he meets Juliet? Romeo is presented as a Petrarchan lover. He does not seem to truly be in love‚ he idolizes Rosaline and puts her on a pedestal. He appears to be in love with the idea of love rather than actually being in love‚ it is an infatuation. Firstly‚ the language that Romeo uses makes the audience suspicious of his love. He uses quite conceit and exaggerate metaphors making it appear as though he is putting on a show. He likes the idea of
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HOW DOES SHAKESPEARE PRESENT ROMEO AND JULIET IN ACT ONE‚ SCENE 5? Shakespeare presents the theme of love in different ways for each of the characters and for some‚ such as Romeo‚ Shakespeare’s portrayal of this theme changes as the play progresses. In Act I‚ Scene V‚ When Romeo sees Juliet he speaks about her‚ using the metaphor: "She doth teach the torches to burn bright!" This suggests that Juliet’s beauty is almost glowing - stunningly beautiful. Shakespeare also includes alliteration with
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Romeo and Juliet is a well known tragedy by the great 16-17th century playwright William Shakespeare. Various dramatisations and films have been made of this famous text such as Franco Zeffirelli’s classic historical version‚ and Baz Luhrmann’s modern spin on the story‚ but each of these still retain the original words written by the Bard. This play was one of Shakespeare’s earlier texts – written in about 1595‚ and is very firmly themed around love. This essay will explore the different areas of
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by describing Romeo and Juliet as being “star-cross’d” Shakespeare is alluding to destiny‚ the inevitability of the two characters’ paths crossing each other and suggests that the outcome is going to be fatal. The Prologue is written in sonnet form‚ a form of poetry which is usually used for love and by doing this Shakespeare is suggesting to his audience that that the play is concerned with love as well as tragedy: it brings a sense of heroism to the play and makes Romeo and Juliet the eponymous
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Romeo and Juliet – a play of contrasts. The play‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare‚ has many contrasts‚ all that cause a big impact in the play. We see it all throughout the play‚ but none more than love verses hate‚ mainly seen in both the Capulet’s and Montague families. We have both hate between the two families‚ and yet we see Romeo and Juliet being ‘star crossed lovers’‚ we see love in each individual family‚ and hate when they are put together. In the prologue itself‚
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Compare and Contrast “Romeo and Juliet” is a story about two star crossed lovers who meet by fate. This great piece of literature written‚ by William Shakespeare will be compared with Baz Lurman’s rendition of “Romeo and Juliet”. The movie missed some details from the play it also added some extra scenes but it still contained the right mood and scenes for it to be a “Romeo and Juliet” movie. A major similarity between the movie and play occurs in mood
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A film Comparsion of Romeo and Juliet Whether on screen or on stage the romantic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has been portrayed many times by different actors‚ directors‚ and writers but the themes always hold true to William Shakespeare’s original play that was wrote in the late 1500’s. The two particular movies we watched in class were perfect examples of contrast‚ one was more traditional (Zefferilli’s 1968 version) while the other appealed to a new generation‚ (Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version)
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Contrast Essay: Romeo and Juliet Often times people say that William Shakespeare was and still is a legend. They are correct. It is amazing how Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet written centuries ago can be better than Franco Zefferelli’s movie production of Romeo and Juliet‚ which had much better technology to work with only decades ago. Although the movie appeared better‚ it left out some major parts. The play had better mood and plot details which made it much more dramatic and by far a
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