"Romeo and Juliet" derives its story from a number of sources accessible throughout the sixteenth century. Shakespeare's main source for this infamous play is Arthur Brooke's 'Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet', a long, dense poem. This poem in turn was adapted from a French prose account ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, written by William Shakespeare during the year 1594-95 is a popular comedy play about the thrilling adventures, trials and experiences of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with woodland faeries. Furthermore, it is a comedy about love and r...
After this scene the atmosphere swiftly changes from romantic and comical to more serious and tragic. ... The play was vaguely set out in two main stages, the first being a sort of romantic comedy, and the second being a more tragic love. ...
The 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, provides viewers with the same theatrical influence as the original play. Baz Luhrmann was able to accomplish this through modern filmmaking techniques and visual imagery. Luhrmann's adaptation maintains much of the same elements of...
Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) which transpires during the fictional development of the play Romeo & Juliet. ...
How successful is Baz Luhrman's film as an appropriation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"? Baz Luhrman's film, "Romeo and Juliet" is a highly successful appropriation of Shakespeare's classic because it reflects the attitudes of its modern context. Furthermore, the modern appropriation maintai...
