It is a slick cinematic rendition of Shakespeare's work brought to the screen for contemporary movie-goers. ... From the beginning the audience is told," buckle up, this Romeo and Juliet ride is going to be like no other Shakespeare you've ever ridden." ... Like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers the editing is fierce and in your face. ... You become entranced and cannot wait to see what happens next even if you are already familiar with the story. ... Like many contemporary Shakespeare productions, the text has been slightly edited but this does nothing to dilute the story. ...

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The film as Shakespeare intended, starts with the Prologue. ... Everything in the prologue is done like a report. ... I think that Shakespeare intended that the two families would be the same. ... Yet both work directly from and with Shakespeare's original script. ... Like always sound effects tied together with actions, and were all relevant when looking at the Elizabethan era. ...

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One of the favorite plays by William Shakespeare is the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. ... (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, sc. ... (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. ... (Brockett, p. 110) Now that you have some background information about the play, about where the play would have been presented I will talk about how the play was originally performed in the late 1590's when William Shakespeare wrote the play. ... Make-up, wigs and costumes were used of course like today. ...

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The film opens with an announcer on a TV set describing the situation as we enter the film it's almost like the opening of a popular TV show: "last week on Dawson's Creek." Just substitute William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet for the actual television show and Verona Beach for the location. ... William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and greed. ... A film that will kick you in the heart. Although it will probably not be considered a classic at par with the Zeffirelli version, I liked this film a lot more than t...

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I chose to write a review on Shakespeare in Love written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and directed by John Madden for paper three. ... I was very impressed by the amount of detail that was paid to recreating the; I loved how the story just seemed to draw you in, not only behind the scenes of the theater, but into the mind of the playwright. ... The only character that did perish was Christopher Marlowe, but he was not a main character even though he was Shakespeare's competition as a playwright. This was a comedy with an ironic ending, both Will and Viola (like Romeo and Juliet) lea...

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William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... This line informs you about whom the characters in the play are and how many. ... The last meaning of civil is civilian which is a normal person, like the people in the families who are just normal people who have disagreements. ... These two rhyming lines mean that, if you listen patiently we will explain again what you have missed, so that you understand. ... The ending pattern of the prologue is different to the rest of the lines in it, which is like how the storyline of the play is stru...

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Shakespeare elucidates the notion of tragedy through the medium of age and the associated insights inherent in the range of ages represented by the characters. ... "He shall not make me there a joyful bride" (Juliet, Act III, Scene V, Line 117) "An you be not hang, beg, starve, die in the streets" (Capulet, Act III, Scene V, Line 193). ... Friar Lawrence's desperate plan for Romeo and Juliet to be together ultimately sounds like a genuine idea "And this shall free thee from this present shame" (Act IV, Scene I, Line 121), but in reality it fails miserably leading to the star-crossed...

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Doc attempts to get through to Tony by dramatically pleading, "Why do you live like there's a war on? Why do you kill?" ... "Couldn't you see he's one of them?" ... / You won't understand" (2.5). ... Like Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria are of adverse parties, and their doomed love is forbidden. ...

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In 'Romeo and Juliet' William Shakespeare writes about different types of conflict, and how the conflict affects those around it. ... What Shakespeare is trying to show is how easy it is to manipulate someone. All you have to do is use the right words. ... In this play Shakespeare shows how easily conflict can occur. ... Whether you think conflict is noble or childish, it is agreeable that it is horrific, futile, and to sum up, pointless. ...

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Zeffereli's adaptation, in my eyes, is extremely conservative, in other words, very Shakespearean like. ... Using your imagination is an important element in making Shakespeare's words come to life, in fact, in anything that you read. ... The dialogue in this first scene between the servants is very well known to those familiar with the words of Romeo and Juliet, Abram says to Sampson, "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"... How conservative is Luhrman's production of Romeo and Juliet, you may ask, in contrast to Zeffereli's? ... If you think abou...

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In the first scene you witness a conversation between Sampson and Gregory, both Capulet kinsmen. ... His last words in the scene threaten her disownment and possible death: An you"ll be mine, I"ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets! ... Like "all the world," Juliet wishes to be included as a worshiper of her fair Romeo. ... Patriarchal themes are underlying in nearly each portion of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... When Romeo and Juliet become disenchanted with the feud between their families and the absolute supremacy of men like Lord ...

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Do you agree? ... From the start of the play to the finish the author (William Shakespeare) gives away little hints about Romeo and Juliet and how they are destined to die tragically. ... That just shows that William Shakespeare didn't waste much time before telling us that the two lovers take their lives. ... It is like they are waiting to die, or at least for something bad to happen. ... There are plenty more signs of fate through the play which William Shakespeare has written. ...

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William Shakespeare's masterwork, "Romeo and Juliet," is unabashedly a tragedy. ... However, even though that scene is the most remembered when you even mention Romeo and Juliet, there are also more tragic elements to the play, even before the deaths occur. ... From the very outset of the play, Shakespeare clearly states, through the Chorus, that this play is most certainly destined to be a tragedy. ... After she drinks the potion, her body goes into a coma-like state, and her family believe that she is really dead, and she is placed in her family tomb. ... "If ever you disturb our street...

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As Shakespeare once said, "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." ... In his tragic play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare illustrates the clash between fate and free will through a character by the name of Mercutio. ... On the way to the Capulet party, Mercutio tells the lovesick Romeo, "If love be rough with you, be rough with love; / Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down" (1.4.27-28). ... Finally, Mercutio also helps to depict philia, a type of brotherly love, which is one of the three levels of love that Shakespeare depicts in his tragedy. ... Unfortunately, ...

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet take on a lot of responsibility such as making quick and proper decisions like their plan to marry. ... He challenges fate in line twenty four in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare when he says: "Then I defy you stars!...

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The female characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are no exception. ... When Juliet discovers that Romeo has been banished and Tybalt slain, the Nurse says to her, "Hie you to your chamber. I"ll find Romeo/ To comfort you. ... She feels like a victim of circumstance and therefore she thinks she must complain to Juliet. ... The three females in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet all seem like they are based around people who actually existed. ...

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Love is a most powerful, complex, and dangerouse emotion some people would say, but in this play Shakespeare agrees with some people and says that it is. ... In this essay I will talk about complex feelings like Romeo and Juliet's love for each other, I will talk about how Love is powerful because you cant control it and I will also talk about how Romeo and Juliets love is dangerous in the play Romeo and Juliet. ... Love is a powerful emotion and cant be controlled, it just happens everyone will find love one day but until your day comes you wont know what its like unless you have alrea...

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In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Julie,"t three responsible adults are the Nurse, Capulet, and Friar Laurence. ... The nurse returns with the plans for their wedding, "Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell,There stays a husband to make you a wife" (II, v, 68-69). ... Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?... In conclusion, the nurse, Capulet, and Friar Laurence are all responsible adults in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Do you believe in fate? To answer that question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is. ... Even if their lives were ended by it, like Romeo says in Act II, scene ii, "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. ... They couldn't contradict it, how would you? ... You can't. ...

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When you first consider Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the first thing to come to mind is, more often than not, the theme of love. ... "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, /Which mannerly devotion shows in this; /For saints have hands that pilgrims" hands do touch, /And palm to palm is holy palmers" kiss." ... One of the major themes of Shakespeare's imagery is that of light. ... For example, when Paris appeals to Capulet for his consent of marriage to Juliet ("But now my lord, what say you to my suit?")... For the majority of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the most ...

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Specifically, romantic love and Shakespeare builds upon the intense passion that is eminent at the first sigh between Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare tends to depict love as not only a expression of two people's feelings, but also a violent and overwhelming power; possessing both Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo challenges fate by crying out "Then I defy you stars" (Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24), depicting that their love is against destiny. ... Fate in the play is very well fitted and works like a clock ticking down to the lover's death. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of love is best renowned...

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Specifically, romantic love and Shakespeare builds upon the intense passion that is eminent at the first sigh between Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare tends to depict love as not only a expression of two people's feelings, but also a violent and overwhelming power; possessing both Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo challenges fate by crying out "Then I defy you stars" (Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24), depicting that their love is against destiny. ... Fate in the play is very well fitted and works like a clock ticking down to the lover's death. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of love is best renowned...

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Romeo and Juliet Essay In the story "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare has a different purpose or meaning he wants each specific character to display. ... He is behaving like a dignified gentleman. ... Now Mercutio being a montague you would think Romeo would cheer himon, but he must stop them both because Tyblat is now his kin also a part of his family yet he does not know. ... Boy, you cannot excuse what you have already done to me; so turn and fight! ...

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"There are plenty ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it." ... Without the theme of heartbreak the play would have been like a fairytale with a happy ending. Heartbreak is showed drastically through the story with the ups and downs Romeo and Juliet face through their journey of love.Throughout the story, William Shakespeare presents the theme of heartbreak in through dramatic irony and dialogue. ... There are plenty ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it. ...

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His Romeo and Juliet released in 1996 is a unique adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. ... The film really brings light to how fantastic Shakespeare's plays are and many would agree that it does him justice. ... Tybalt's wearing of black makes him look like the angel of death, and he is. ... Romeo and Juliet are both very plain at their wedding to show that this is true love and you don't have to dress it up. ... In the film bands like Garbage, The Cardigans, and Radiohead update the text and make it more like the original. ...

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