William Shakespeare act 1 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet

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Victoria Walters    11c                                                 course work                                                    miss O’Malley

Essay Romeo and Juliet

     William Shakespeare makes act 1 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet dramatically interesting in several ways he uses language, comedy, structure, themes, and the attraction between characters. The most dramatic would be structure, Shakespeare structures his plays with a big feud at the beginning of the play this catches the attention of the audience and encourages the audience into the play.

   Shakespeare’s play is set in Verona in the 12th or 13th century when the renaissance had already started in Europe, when Romeo and Juliet was written it was in a time of increased awareness of the tragedy of lives, as you can see in Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy of the ‘star-crossed lovers’. We are reading the oxford school of Shakespeare   Romeo and Juliet that was published in 1982, but the original play was written around 1599. When this play was performed in the 12th and 13th century the stage would be a big wooden box out side in a town square where the community would gathered to enjoy themselves it would be performed in the open air and the audience wouldn’t be sat down quiet, they would be stood up drinking and having a good time so Shakespeare had to put a loud dramatic scene a the beginning of the play to catch the audience attention.

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    William Shakespeare use language to make the play Romeo and Juliet dramatically interesting he use puns which are words that all sound the same and are linked in some way for example

   “ Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals

   “  No, for then we should be colliers

  “I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw”

  “Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of the collar

In the 12th and 13th century the people watching this play would think this was really funny and clever and really admire Shakespeare for this.

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