Romeo and Juliet

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Bowling, Lawrence Edward (1949). "The Thematic Framework of Romeo and Juliet". PMLA. Modern Language Association of America. 64 (1): 208–20. doi: 10.2307/459678. JSTOR 459678. S2CID 163454145. Evans, Bertrand (1950). "The Brevity of Friar Laurence". PMLA. Modern Language Association. 65 (5): 841–65. doi: 10.2307/459577. JSTOR 459577. S2CID 163739242. Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade FRIAR LAURENCE Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet. Kind, civic-minded, a proponent of moderation, and always ready with a plan, Friar Lawrence secretly marries the impassioned lovers in hopes that the union might eventually bring peace to Verona. As well as being a Catholic holy man, Friar Lawrence is also an expert in the use of seemingly mystical potions and herbs.

Peter Brook's 1947 version was the beginning of a different style of Romeo and Juliet performances. Brook was less concerned with realism, and more concerned with translating the play into a form that could communicate with the modern world. He argued, "A production is only correct at the moment of its correctness, and only good at the moment of its success." [134] Brook excluded the final reconciliation of the families from his performance text. [135]

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Quince, Rohan (2000). Shakespeare in South Africa: Stage Productions During the Apartheid Era. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-4061-3. Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love. [36] Romeo and Juliet have become emblematic of young lovers and doomed love. Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. [39]

Leveen, Lois (28 October 2014). "Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony". The Atlantic . Retrieved 30 January 2015. An apothecary in Mantua. Had he been wealthier, he might have been able to afford to value his morals more than money, and refused to sell poison to Romeo. PeterThe son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. A young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. Though impulsive and immature, his idealism and passion make him an extremely likable character. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he is not at all interested in violence. His only interest is love. At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a woman named Rosaline, but the instant he lays eyes on Juliet, he falls in love with her and forgets Rosaline. Thus, Shakespeare gives us every reason to question how real Romeo’s new love is, but Romeo goes to extremes to prove the seriousness of his feelings. He secretly marries Juliet, the daughter of his father’s worst enemy; he happily takes abuse from Tybalt; and he would rather die than live without his beloved. Romeo is also an affectionate and devoted friend to his relative Benvolio, Mercutio, and Friar Lawrence. Higgins, David H., ed. (1998). The Divine Comedy. Oxford World Classics. Translated by Sisson, C. H. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283502-5. Lee, Ashley (14 February 2014). " Romeo and Juliet: Orlando Bloom's Broadway Debut Released in Theaters for Valentine's Day". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016 . Retrieved 27 December 2017. Goyal, Divya (6 December 2013). " Ram Leela box office collections hit massive Rs 100 crore, pulverises prediction". The Financial Express. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017 . Retrieved 27 December 2017.

ROMEO: I’m Romeo, and I used to be emo and annoying but now I’m so totally in luuuuurve and it’s AWESOME. As well as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gibbons draws parallels with Love's Labour's Lost and Richard II. [28] Kahn, Coppélia (1977). "Coming of Age in Verona". Modern Language Studies. The Northeast Modern Language Association. 8 (1): 5–22. doi: 10.2307/3194631. ISSN 0047-7729. JSTOR 3194631. Juliet’s nurse, the woman who breast-fed Juliet when she was a baby and has cared for Juliet her entire life. A vulgar, long-winded, and sentimental character, the Nurse provides comic relief with her frequently inappropriate remarks and speeches. But, until a disagreement near the play’s end, the Nurse is Juliet’s faithful confidante and loyal intermediary in Juliet’s affair with Romeo. She provides a contrast with Juliet, given that her view of love is earthy and sexual, whereas Juliet is idealistic and intense. The Nurse believes in love and wants Juliet to have a nice-looking husband, but the idea that Juliet would want to sacrifice herself for love is incomprehensible to her. Arafay, Mireia (2005). Books in Motion: Adaptation, Adaptability, Authorship. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1957-7.In Capulet’s household, young Juliet talks with her mother, Lady Capulet, and her nurseabout the possibility of marrying Paris. Juliet has not yet considered marriage, but agrees to look at Paris during the feast to see if she thinks she could fall in love with him. Groves, Beatrice (2007). Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare, 1592–1604. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920898-2. Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs First Citizen Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down! All theatres were closed down by the puritan government on 6 September 1642. Upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the King's Company and the Duke's Company) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire was divided between them. [111] Mary Saunderson, probably the first woman to play Juliet professionally

The earliest known version of the Romeo and Juliet tale akin to Shakespeare's play is the story of Mariotto and Ganozza by Masuccio Salernitano, in the 33rd novel of his Il Novellino published in 1476. [10] Salernitano sets the story in Siena and insists its events took place in his own lifetime. His version of the story includes the secret marriage, the colluding friar, the fray where a prominent citizen is killed, Mariotto's exile, Ganozza's forced marriage, the potion plot, and the crucial message that goes astray. In this version, Mariotto is caught and beheaded and Ganozza dies of grief. [11] [12] Frontispiece of Giulietta e Romeo by Luigi da Porto, 1530 Rubinstein, Frankie (1989). A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance (Seconded.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-48866-0.Bloom, Harold (1998). Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 1-57322-120-1. Morrison, Michael A. (2007). "Shakespeare in North America". In Shaughnessy, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 230–58. ISBN 978-0-521-60580-9. And how old is Romeo? Well, he's old enough to kill Juliet's cousin in a sword fight, so...yeah. Probably not 13. TL;DR (may contain spoilers): The classic story of boy meets girl; girl's family hates boy's family; boy's family hates girl's family; boy kills girl's cousin; boy and girl kill themselves. Romeo and Juliet Summary