Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and‚ along with Hamlet‚ is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today‚ the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian
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Colin O’Brien Final Exam Essay Outline 6/3/14 Love‚ desire‚ and passion are examined from many angles and in many different kind of relationships in the play. Explain how. Because of their forbidden love‚ Romeo and Juliet are forced into conflict with the social world around them: family‚ friends‚ political authority‚ and even religion. The lovers try to avoid this conflict by hiding‚ by escaping from it. They prefer the privacy of nighttime to the public world of day. They volunteer to give up
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east‚ and Juliet is the sun. Arise‚ fair sun‚ and kill the envious moon‚ Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou‚ her maid‚ art far more fair than she. . . . The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. Romeo speaks these lines in the so-called balcony scene‚ when‚ hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast‚ he sees Juliet leaning out
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In the film Romeo+Juliet (1996)‚ Luhrmann puts a new‚ fresh spin on Shakespeare’s classic play‚ Romeo and Juliet. While staying somewhat true to the original play‚ he shapes the dialogue‚ acting‚ and setting to bring the star crossed lovers into the present. This makes it more appealing and approachable to a modern audience. One might argue that the mixture of modern scenery and accents and Shakespearean English is an unsatisfying hybrid‚ and that a remake should either edit the language so it
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Tracy Hoang Per 3 May 31‚ 2012 Westside Story and Romeo and Juliet Essay There are some plays that remind the audience about the past movie they have seen that related in the same general ideas. After learning about “Romeo and Juliet” and watch “Westside Story” play. Both plays show the audience their point of view of how the plays create in their own unique way but share the same themes and moral lessons. So‚ they bring up a lot of differences and similarities that can compare together throughout
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Romeo and Juliet- Essay Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean classic that is widely considered to be timeless and universal - a quality that is attained through the strong values‚ themes‚ language techniques and characterisations of the play. The themes that are presented in the play revolve around love‚ hate‚ death & violence which contribute in a major way to intensify the plot and drama of the play. Other themes include the individual versus society‚ and the certainty of fate. Shakespeare
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Directing Romeo and Juliet Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task‚ and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative‚ and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines‚ conversation or even entire scenes to
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In scene G‚ the nurse teases Juliet because she got the answer that Juliet waited all day to hear. It all started after the marriage proposal of Romeo and Juliet. The day after Juliet proposes‚ she sent the nurse to find out about the marriage. The nurse left at nine in the morning‚ but never returned until twelve after. However‚ Juliet waited and waited impatiently in the orchard. When the nurse and Peter entered the gate‚ Juliet rushed to them and asked questions about Romeo (Peter exit). Furthermore
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INTRODUCTION Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young “star-cross’d lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular archetypal stories of young‚ teenagers lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. It’s plot is based on an Italian tale‚ translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeous and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in
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happiness. However‚ love can cause people to get injured or die. This lesson is evident in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare by having irony and characterization. Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet (1968) tried to express this lesson through the use of atmosphere and body language. A lesson that can be learned from Shakespeare’s play is that love can get someone killed and Zeffirelli’s attempt at presenting this lesson in his film was
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