Criticism on Hamlet
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Comparing two versions of Romeo & Juliet (Zefferelli and Baz Luhram).
Romeo & Juliet I will go through my essay scene by scene as I think this is the most effective and more efficient way of comparing the two different versions of the story and thus answering the task question. I will start by giving an introduction of both stories. First of all, the Zefferelli version. His version of the Shakespeare play is set around the time that the play was written by Shakespeare around 1599a.d. Secondly, Baz Luhrman´ s version made in the 1990´s and set in the 1990´s. The key scenes I will be studying are: The Opening Act 1 Scene 1 The Ball Act 1 Scene 5 The Balcony Act 2 Scene 2 The Fight Act 3 Scene 1 Ending Act 5 Scene 3 The Opening - Act 1 Scene 1 The opening scene in the Luhrman version is set in a typical U.S gas station. It is a busy and open area, much like the market setting portrayed in the original script, which is also busy. This is very clever of Luhrman because he is trying to modernise the original setting without losing the feeling of an open and busy area. A market square in modern America would be very strange. In the Zefferelli version, the director has tried to replicate the setting and atmosphere of the original, using a typical market square from the time that the play was written, this might seem to the audience as a more 'realistic´ version of the play as the film is trying to be more identical to the original play. At
Romeo and Juliet theatre production essay.
Richard Tandy English coursework: Romeo and Juliet theatre production essay * Introduction For this piece of coursework I will explore and explain five tense and dramatic scenes from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Using these scenes I will explain how a production at the Globe Theatre could have been presented to the audience of the time, to maximise the drama and the characterisations. In addition, I will consider how audience reaction and participation have changed over the centuries with varying approaches to the presentation of the story. Before proceeding with this essay I will now briefly explain some of the factors which coincide with the requirements of this essay question. For example, I will give a brief summarization of the story of Romeo and Juliet, an outline of some details about the Globe theatre, and a brief review of the rest of the essay question, for example, some of the factors which would influence how a production at the Globe Theatre could have been presented to the audience of the time, to maximise the drama and the characterisations. The famous story of Romeo and Juliet, based on the narrative poem, The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke is a story of two lovers, as the prologue famously refers to as "A pair of star-cross'd
Romeo and Juliet - What different types of love are represented in the play, and how is Shakespeare drawing on historical, social and cultural features of medieval and Elizabethan Englandin the ways that he represents these types of love?
Pre-1914 Drama Coursework: Romeo and Juliet Essay By Charlotte Gatehouse 1SD GCSE English / English Literature Band X Set 1 2001 - 2003 Pre-1914 Drama Coursework: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Teacher: S Webber What different types of love are represented in the play, and how is Shakespeare drawing on historical, social and cultural features of medieval and Elizabethan England in the ways that he represents these types of love? The entire theme of Romeo and Juliet is love. The plays plot is about Romeo and Juliet's love affair, but the romantic love is not the only type of love present in the story. As well as using realistic social situations familiar to an Elizabethan audience, Shakespeare draws upon popular medieval and Elizabethan conventions of poetry, literature and art in the way that he represents the different types of love in the play. Shakespeare draws upon conventions of art and literature from the Elizabethan and medieval world, for the first type of love that appears in the play that is the Infatuation which Romeo has for Rosaline. In the opening scenes Romeo is depressed because he is in love with a woman who does not return his affections. This depression is apparent when Benvolio talks to Lord and Lady Montague about Romeo. He says, "...underneath the grove of sycamore.../ So early walking did I see your son/ Towards him I
Views of love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Views of love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Contents . Introduction 1 2. Main part: Views of love in Romeo and Juliet 2 2.1. Romeo's and Juliet's view of love: Love as the reason for living 2 2.1.1. Romeo 2 2.1.2. Juliet 5 2.2. The domestics' and Mercutio's view of love: Love means sex 8 2.2.1. Sampson and Gregory, servants of the house of Capulet 8 2.2.2. The Nurse 9 2.2.3. Mercutio 10 2.3. Benvolio's view of love: Be happy, no matter if you are in love or not 12 2.4. Juliet's parents, the Prince and Paris: The Elizabethan attitude towards 12 love and sex 2.4.1.Capulet 13 2.4.2. Lady Capulet 14 2.4.2. Prince Escalus 15 2.4.3. Paris 16 2.5. Romeo's parents: A relationship full of love 17 2.5.1. Montague 17 2.5.2. Lady Montague 17 2.6. Friar Laurence' view of love: Violent delights have violent ends 18 3. Conclusion: In how far do the views of love presented in the play reflect 19 the attitude towards love the Elizabethan audience had? . Introduction William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has the "high profile as the love-tragedy everybody knows"1. Although it is regarded as the ideal of romantic love there
Classical Music Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky, Gounod and Prokofiev
0099 0549 2 016 Word Count: 8300 Tutor: Dr. Julie Sanders Classical Music Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky, Gounod and Prokofiev Contents Acknowledgements Page 3 Preface Page 4 Chapter One: The Masked Ball Page 6 Chapter Two: The Balcony Scene Page 15 Chapter Three: Friar Lawrence Page 23 Conclusions Page 31 Glossary Page 33 Bibliography Page 34 Acknowledgements This dissertation would not have been possible without the help of many tutors and friends at Keele University. Thanks, first of all are due to Dr. Julie Sanders who stimulated and encouraged me throughout the writing of this piece. Secondly I would like to thank Matt Edmonds who let me borrow several pieces of his music collection so that this dissertation could be completed. My Mum, Dad and Phil need a special thanks for reading rough drafts, sharing my enthusiasm and for picking me up when I was in need of help. Thank you all. Preface This study originated in my interest in Shakespeare and my love of music. I first had an interest in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when I did a school production at the age of twelve. Having since studied a wide range of Shakespearean material at university I decided to go back to my initial interest of Romeo and Juliet and write a dissertation. As my interest in classical music has grown over the
Writing about the story of Romeo and Juliet, in a prologue then the relationship the Nurse had with Juliet then, who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and to what extent is fate responsible for their deaths?
Romeo and Juliet In this piece of course work I am going to be writing about the story of Romeo and Juliet, in a prologue then the relationship the Nurse had with Juliet then, who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and to what extent is fate responsible for their deaths? Theatres today and how they have changed since Shakespeare's day and I'll be finishing with comparing the two videos of Romeo and Juliet also Film adaptation of the modern Romeo and Juliet film and I'll be studying in detail (Act5 scene 3). The Prologue of Romeo and Juliet reveals the entire story in a single page. The prologue raises the questions (1) To whom do the events occur? And (2) What are the details of the story? The two families are very rich and powerful but Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, are sworn enemies because of an ancient feud between their families. In beautiful Verona, Italy " . . . where we lay our scene. From an ancient grudge break to new Mutiny." This quote symbolises Romeo and Juliet's love. These star-crossed lovers prove their love by respecting each other in spite of their family's conflicting. Instead they love each other which in the end, was much worse than hating each other therefore fulfilling the uprising to which the Prologue refers. "Where civil blood make civil hands unclean," means that all the towns people and family members had a part in
How does Shakespeare create a sense of tragedy in the final scene of 'Romeo and Juliet'?
English Coursework: How does Shakespeare create a sense of tragedy in the final scene of 'Romeo and Juliet'? Four hundred years ago, late in the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare wrote 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'; a play that tells the tale of the love between the children of two feuding families, and the tragedy that becomes their love. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love, then further dishonour, and in this course disobey, their parents by secretly getting married. When Romeo's best friend Mercutio is killed in a brawl Romeo takes revenge (death) on his killer, Tybalt, Juliet's cousin. Romeo is here by banished and has to leave Juliet to marry her father's choice of groom: Parris. Juliet will not marry him and again disobeys her father. She takes a sleeping potion to make her appear dead. Romeo doesn't get this message and, on hearing the news of her death, goes to her tomb to take his own life. Juliet wakes up to find her love dead and in her pain takes also her life. 'Romeo and Juliet', is, by definition, a tragedy: ) A play in which the protagonist falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal 2) Any dramatic or literary composition dealing with such themes. Defined by the Oxford Dictionary In this play Romeo and Juliet are the protagonists that fall to disaster. The disaster
Take lines 37-240 of Act 3, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet and explain how I think they should be said as if I where directing it myself.
English Shakespeare Assignment: Introduction In this piece of coursework I have been asked to take lines 37-240 of Act 3, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet and explain how I think they should be said as if I where directing it myself. I will then go on to talk about Shakespeare's stagecraft, the attitudes he received from the audiences and how they accept his complex characters and finally the differences between the poem Shakespeare based his play on and the play itself and which is more relevant to today's audience. English Shakespeare Assignment: Romeo And Juliet The scene begins as the sun is rising in Verona. Romeo and Juliet awake after the previous night consummating their marriage. Emotions are running high in the Capulet household as Romeo had slaughtered Tybalt Juliet's cousin only the night before. When performing the lines in this scene certain things must be taken into account about how the characters will be feeling about incidents which have previously taken place. Both Romeo and Juliet will be very paranoid about there families finding out about the marriage as from the opening scene of the play the families grievance was known from the fight between the younger generations of the families in the streets. They will feel very alone as the only two people who are supporting the young lovers marriage are the nurse and the Friar who said in act 2 scene 3: "For this
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The concept of fate functions as a central theme in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the opening prologue of the play, the Chorus informs the audience that Romeo and Juliet are "Star ñ cross'd Lovers" (Prologue l.6). In other words, the Chorus states that Romeo and Juliet are governed by fate, a force often linked to the movements of the stars. Fate manifests itself in all the events surrounding the young lovers: the ancient and inexplicable feud between their families, the catastrophic series of mishaps which ruin Friar Lawrence's plans, and the tragic timing of Romeo's suicide and Juliet's awakening. The structure of the play itself rests upon the fate from which the two lovers cannot escape. The play opens with a brawl which erupts between servants of the Montague and Capulet families. This initial quarrel illustrates that the "ancient Grudge" between the two families runs so deep that it extends to the servants (Prologue l. 3). Upon their first encounter, Romeo and Juliet remain ignorant to the fact that they are the children of feuding families. Actually, the lovers meet by coincidence. Romeo agrees to attend the Capulet ball because he hopes to see Rosaline, and he consistently claims that no other woman can impress him. On the other hand, Juliet attends the ball to meet Count Paris and to see if she can love him. Before entering the ball, Romeo experiences a sense
