Give advice to an actor playing Romeo. How should they show Romeo's development throughout the play?

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Give advice to an actor playing Romeo. How should they show Romeo’s development throughout the play?

Focus on the given scenes.

In the specific scenes Romeo’s character changes in quite a significant way. In act 1 scene 1 when Romeo is speaking of Rosaline to Benvolio, it shows to me that he is not really in love with her, but actually just infatuated by her beauty; and this causes him to feel that he loves her. The reason I think this is because when he says ‘alas, that love, whose view is muffled still’ to me it means he does not know what love actually means.

In act 1 scene 1 at first Romeo seems depressed and confused ‘ alas, that love, whose view is muffled still.’ I would direct Romeo to be sitting on a wall with his head resting on one arm and his face to look depressed. I would get Romeo to show his audience that he is serious at this point about his feelings and really emphasise the movement when he quickly changes the subject ‘where shall we dine? O me! What fray was?’ I would make him jump up suddenly and start pacing around; to really show his audience he is really confused about his feelings.

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‘Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.’ I would make Romeo start to get angry, because in this quote he is saying there should be less hat and more love; ‘why then, o brawling love, o loving hate,’ Romeo would start pacing around because he is just so fed up with all the fighting between his family and the Capulets. The reason I would make him act like this is because the girl he claims he is in love with is a member of the Capulet family and the more fighting that goes on, it decreases ...

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