Romeo and Juliet - Zefferelli with Luhrman production comparison.
Romeo and Juliet - Zefferelli with Luhrman production comparison In this essay I am going to write how the production of Romeo In Franco Zeffirelli's production of Romeo and Juliet, the setting and language are of a traditional, realistic nature. This is in complete contrast to Baz Luhrmans production, with the exception of the language used in both productions. Zefferelli's production however is far more effective, as he has tried to keep the film close to the original script and intended exactly how Shakespeare wrote it. This approach clearly portrays the concept Shakespeare is trying to demonstrate and it sincerely aids understanding, as Zefferelli has kept it original. Zefferelli has done a very good creating the right atmosphere as how lifestyle was like in Shakespeare's time, this is clearly shown by the Shakespearean costumes worn in Zefferellis production. As Zefferelli uses the commonsensical, original approach, he directs the film using the continuity style of editing; this tells the story, using a logical pattern or sequence the film simply flows and does not jump from scene to scene. The objective of Zefferelli I believe was just to bring Shakespeare's script to life, to help people to understand the moral and storyline better. On the other hand I believe Luhrmans objectives were far different to Zefferellis, I feel Luhrman was somewhat touched by the
Symbols of Lust in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.
Zachary Johnson English 4HW 503168664 Symbols of Lust in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Shakespeare's Ovidian erotic poem Venus and Adonis tells the tale of a goddess, Venus, who lusts fruitlessly after a human boy, Adonis. Although Venus relentlessly professes her love for the mortal youth, in reality she experiences only sexual desire. The Bard utilizes scenes of consumption and eating to illustrate Venus' intense passion and desire to control Adonis sexually. Likewise, Shakespeare describes her sexual arousal with images of water and heat. In Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare uses images of predation, water, and heat to illustrate the dominance of Lust over Love in Venus' mind. Shakespeare's frequent passages containing images of one character literally consuming the other indicate the craving for control associated with Venus' lust. Shortly after Venus and Adonis' first sight of each other, Shakespeare compares her to "an empty eagle, sharp by fast" (55), which "tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone... Till either gorge be stuffed or prey be gone" (56-58). The weak, helpless prey symbolizes Adonis, whom Venus feeds upon with her incessant kisses. Her figurative consumption of Adonis reveals the intense physical desire she experiences. Later, Venus tries to incite the same passions in Adonis. After her failure to satisfy her longing by controlling the
Feminism in Shakespeare
Feminism in Shakespeare Conventionally, feminism has little correlation with Shakespearean comedies; however, Claire McEachern attempts to address this topic with some degree of success in her article published in the Shakespeare Quarterly entitled "Fathering Herself: A Source Study of Shakespeare's Feminism". The author herself reveals the adversity face by feminists up against Shakespeare's male-dominated world by admitting, "Certainly, in considering "Shakespeare's feminism" (a debatable, and surely anachronistic, construction), the prospect of looking to Shakespeare's sources for the origins of any political understanding of the "woman's part" seems to offer little promise; behind the critical assertion that finds Shakespeare's portrayals of women remarkable lies the unarticulated suspicion of the rare if not unprecedented quality of his cultural voice". McEachern, while turning to the cultural voice of Renaissance patriarchy, fails to recognize the female community in Much Ado About Nothing within her study of feminism. In her 1988 article, Claire McEachern examines the issue of feminism by utilizing several of Shakespeare's works, including Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear. Currently a professor at the University of California, McEachern first provides two previous schools of feministic thought prior to proposing her individual criticism. She identifies "two
Shakespeare's romantic comedies range from the mystical to the ludicrous. Plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night dip into the essences of the mystical and ludicrous and distasteful.
Ashley Abboud Shakespeare 509 November 17, 2002 Paper #2 Shakespeare's romantic comedies range from the mystical to the ludicrous. Plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night dip into the essences of the mystical and ludicrous and distasteful. It has been said that these elements for example, "love-in-idleness juice," the anti-Semitism of the Merchant of Venice and the social distinctions of Twelfth Night, are all "problematic to the readers of the 21st century." This essay will explain how these attributes of Shakespeare's work are some what of a hindrance to the readers of the 21st century. To begin with A Midsummer Night's Dream, the idea of love-in -idleness juice is a little too much. The problem is not so much with the juice itself but the implications of the juice kept on the eyes of Demetrius. At the beginning of the play he is truly in love with Hermia, but because of the fairy Oberon, he is forced to love Helena, "A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes but do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady," (2.1.260-262). Of course at this part of the play the juice is put onto Lysander. It is at the end of the play that the love-in-idleness juice is truly a problem; Demetrius marries Hermia under the power of its spell. This compromises the "romance" part of the comedy. Every
July 14th, Day before performance of The Twelfth Night play at the Globe
July 14th, Day before performance of 'The Twelfth Night@ play at the Globe Everyone is talking about the performance tomorrow. There are people wishing they could go but the tickets sold out in a week. This play is so popular here because it is the first place it will be shown anywhere in the world. I was fortunate enough to get hold of a ticket. It was very expensive but I could afford it! I got a balcony seat, which is the best you can get and that's why it is so pricey. I could just about afford it! I have heard many rumors about the show. Some people are saying it is a waste of time and money because the actors can't act. There are no special effects or realism. It will be so bad everyone will have left by the interval. These rumors came from the mouths of people, which had no tickets. They could either not afford it or were not able to get hold of one before it sold out. But most of the people that did get a ticket say it's the best play around. It is like no other that has ever been shown! July 15th, Day of performance of 'The Twelfth Night' play at the Globe Everyone is on a big high now. It is the day of the performance in London. I am ready to leave for the Globe now. I have dressed smartly because I have a really good seat at the balcony. It is so close to the stage I will be able to touch the actors when they come close enough. I wouldn't, as it would disturb
Do you think the presentation of the Mechanicals, and their play, is funny or patronising, or do you think Shakespeare intended us to take them seriously?
Do you think the presentation of the Mechanicals, and their play, is funny or patronising, or do you think Shakespeare intended us to take them seriously? In the play I believe that the Mechanicals have no direct link to the lovers, I think that this highlights their role in the play as a source of comedy. Although one may be led to differ because of the Mechanical's performance at the end of the play I still believe this to be the case. The Mechanicals, who all have funny names, as a group represent simple, ordinary people. If not a little less intellectual and a little more clumsy than ordinary people. Their simplicity is reflected by the description of them as "Hard-handed men", this suggests that they are ordinary laborious people. Their preparations for an attempt to put on a play for Theseus and Hippolyta are ludicrous and hilarious but their honesty suggests a geniune effort , which at the end of the play one is inclined to respect. The Mechanicals first appear in Act 1 Scene 2. They meet in the woods to reheasre the play. This scene is comically effective because these somewhat unsophisticated men seem to take themselves so very seriously and because of their obvious misuse of english. This scene shows us that the Mechanicals' humour is very farce, in that it is very obvious and direct. In this scene the audience finds out immediately that the Mechanicals are
Compare and contrast the presentation of the Supernatural within your Devised Thematic Coursework with the theatrical treatment of this theme in different times and cultures.
GCSE Drama Written Coursework Compare and contrast the presentation of the Supernatural within your Devised Thematic Coursework with the theatrical treatment of this theme in different times and cultures. We decided to perform a piece of the supernatural having seen a production of a 'Woman in Black.' The texts that we used as the basis of our piece came from Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The style of our piece was very comic and bold, all the actors with the exception of one were ghosts, which made the play unique. My particular acting role involved contributing to the 'ghostliness' of the play by enacting the outraged and far from scary ghost, Macbeth. The fact that none of us resembled anything 'scary' at all made the play all the more comic. The lighting effects we used in order to create atmosphere were not those usually associated with the supernatural. On the occasions that the lights were dim, this was not to create suspense or tension but to prevent the audience from seeing certain parts of the stage. The lighting effect most used was 'general cover' to create a sense of normality, as opposed to a supernatural sense. The style we really wanted to portray to a modern audience was a comic one. The 'ghostly' figures were therefore portrayed as being comical and not the conventional 'spooky' that we see so often today which could be very
Shakespeare-Midsummer Night's dream
GSCE English Coursework: A Midsummer Nights Dream Question 3 In what ways have you found A Midsummer Night's Dream interesting as a play for dramatic performance? I found that William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' as a dramatic performance was outstanding. It had a lot of different aspects that brought the play to life on the stage and more recently on our television screens, from the love triangle of the Athenian lovers to the entertaining mechanicals play. Shakespeare's play has been turned into theatrical performances and visual performances on new technology that have appeared in the last century. The play had different plots that co-existed with each other. The portion that I found most entertaining was the fairies. Fairies were spirit beings that live in the woodlands in the country. The greenery of the woods was a calamity, belonging to the spirit world, in this case the fairies. It was a popular belief in Shakespeare's time that the world was filled with these good and bad spirits. Since Oberon was on a break with Titania, he was helpless I perceived. So he wanted to help the humans with their problem. The impish duo of Oberon and puck made the play wittier. Many people thought that fairies lived in their own kingdom and couldn't be seen by humans. The fairies only let the humans see them occasionally in dreams. This is symbolic, because it refers
A Midsummer’s Nights Dream
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William Shakespeare.
Our Man of the Day: William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop. John Shakespeare was a well known and respected manin the town. He held several important local governmental positions. William Shakespeare's mother was Mary Arden. Though she was the daughter of a local farmer, she was related to a family of considerable wealth and social standing. Mary Arden and John Shakespeare were married in 1557. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on