Romeo and Juliet have attained the role as the quintessential lovers, and the noun, "a Romeo," is synonymous with " lover." ... At the Capulet ball in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, all of the characters speak in blank verse, but when Romeo and Juliet converse, they speak in sonnet form. ... Bernstein and Robbins translated Shakespeare's spoken word into modern dance techniques (Gravely 1). ... Just as Tony initially fell in love with one glace, Tony perishes with a single shot. Upon discovering Romeo's death, Juliet ends her own by piercing her chest with her truelove's d...

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• Grade Level: High School

His literature works written over 400 years ago, have survived the challenge of time, so much so that Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems are still considered to this day an integral facet within the study of culture, society and language. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... In a way, the characters, although played by male actors, conceptualised women in a forum appropriate to the era, to which is deemed to be: 'women translated by the opinions of m...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate