The context of both Shakespeare in the Elizabethan Era and Luhrmann in the late 20th century impacts Shakespeare’s play‚ and Luhrmann’s film: Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‚’ the social‚ religious and political aspects of the Elizabethan Era clearly were an influence on the play. For example‚ during the time at which the play “Romeo and Juliet” was written‚ religion was involved with politics and there was a small percentage of the wealthy and a large percentage of those who
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eSkye Nieves 4-19-12 Period 1 Romeo and Juliet Theme Essay The powerful nature of Romeo and Juliet’s love is a prime factor that leads to their personal tragedies. From the moment they meet in the play‚ love and violence become linked to each other. Romeo and Juliet’s love is of an intense passion where love overpowers all other values. They are driven to defy their families by this force and their extreme and boundless love was of such a great nature that it could only be
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a play wherein laid a tragedy‚ written by Shakespeare featuring two star cross’d lover. Despite the fact that it’s suppose to be a love story‚ the prologue‚ written in the form of a sonnet‚ emits a heavy‚ sombre atmosphere and foreshadows the rest of the play‚ focusing on the negative aspects of love and outlining the tragic outcome of such an emotion – rejecting the idea that love overcomes all that the typical love story undertakes. The sonnet contains alternate rhyming couplets
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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
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I believe that the first one we watched‚ the Franco Zeffirelli version‚ was a better retelling of the play. Even though things like the death of Paris and the death of Lady Montague were taken out of it‚ they were also taken out of the more modern one‚ so that has nothing to do with the decision about which is better. The first one did a much better job of immersing you in the story and making you feel like you were in the exact time period that it would have taken place in. The older version also
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Romeo and Juliet “A tale of the young for the young” By Laura Marinos Throughout the 20th Century‚ there have been several attempts to transform William Shakespeare’s famous works into a modern context‚ with The Lion King based on Hamlet and 10 Things I Hate About You as a loose transformation of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course‚ there have been two successful transformations already based on Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet; West Side Story and Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet “Two households‚ both alike in dignity‚ in Fair Verona‚ where we lay our scene‚ from ancient grudge break new mutiny‚ where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous works. It has been adapted into screenplays‚ and remade countless times. Baz Luhrman’s and William Shakespeare’s versions of Romeo and Juliet are similar in theme‚ but differ in setting‚ mood‚ and character personalities. One of the similarities between
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Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet 1996 and william shakespeare how each text reflects its cultural and historical context I am the master of my fate. I am the captain in my soul. « When we look at Shakespeare’s work‚ we discover a playwright who never loses sight of uncertainties‚ ambiguities‚ and imbalances of life » (Barthelemy 2004: 141) Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was written in the late 1500’s. Critics tended to disparage this play in comparison to the four great tragedies Shakespeare
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story of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet has some adaptations that no knows which truly resembles Shakespeare play. So by picking two adaptations of Romeo and Juliet the people can get a feel what Shakespeare should be like. Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet is a lot more precise to Shakespeare’s playwright than Luhrmann’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by comparing and contrasting the movies to the playwright. First people need to know some background information about these movies of Romeo and Juliet
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When William “The Bard” Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet around 1596‚ he had no idea that hundreds of years later middle school students from around the globe would be reading it. There are many reasons why teenagers read his famous play‚ but one of the main ones is to tell them what not to do. Educators everywhere want to show that there is a better way out of things than death‚ while also teaching kids how to read old English‚ and introducing kids to one of the most influential writers of all
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