Juliet then finds herself promising to commit suicide in front of the Friar. ... She spends a short time worrying over the potion and what may happen to her, "What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead" (lines 24 - 25) but she soon summons her inner strength and it is not long before she takes the solution, knowing that by doing so she will never see her family again. ...
In Strictly Ballroom the lovers kiss in front of the large sign, in Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo Dicaprio walks past the sign and in Moulin Rouge it appears as L"amour Fou, as in the French for "mad love". ... Luhrmann's film makes good use of this, and to remind the audience of the tragedy involved the film begins with a television on screen with a news reporter speaking the first lines of the play as a recent news report announcing the death of the two lovers. ...
When Shakespeare presented Romeo and Juliet in front of an audience around 1595 he had few props so therefore limited setting. ... Shakespeare did this so the person comes in quicker and it makes it easier for the actors to remember their lines. ...
