... I read or watch "R&J", it seems as if it is the first time.... There is a reason the classical production Romeo and Juliet is the most enduring, most often performed and adapted, most often recalled and remembered, play. There is such depth and breadth to the story, to the language and to these characters that we all think we know so well. What a challenge it must have been then ... script lacks for/in portraying the protagonists. But on the whole the actors understood the role thoroughly. The play is based on worldwide known and ever-topical Shakespeare's "Romeo& Juliet". The story con...

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... first type. Some readers may concede the opposite, that the love is rushed and ill considered, thus doomed from its beginning. Yet, there is another interpretation, which arises from the soliloquies of both Romeo and Juliet, considering each love independently - that Romeo is a lover of the first definition, enamored, and that Juliet and her love for Romeo are best described by the baser classification. Defense for this thesis occurs on ... several levels. One of the less obvious but most profound supporting findings comes from the use of the word love. Many as shockingly sexual as she ...

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... debates with himself whether he should kill himself, or if it is "nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," (Hamlet III.i.57). Similarly, In Romeo and Juliet, fate is blamed the cause of trouble. After the death of Tybalt, Romeo exclaims that he is "fortune's fool!" (Romeo and Juliet, III.i.136). It is clear that these characters are primarily governed by their belief in fate ... 's tragic plays end with death, usually of the protagonist. In Hamlet, all the prominent characters die, whether it is by poisoned wine, or the sword, or suicide. In Romeo and Juliet, the tw...

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... in the Renaissance movements. Most of Shakespeare's work was completed in iambic pentameter. He also created soliloquies and gave a rhythmic beat to his plays. He did his work during the seventeenth century and during the Renaissance period in Europe. His others works of art included Othello, Julius Cesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Mac Beth to name a few. After much debate within myself, I have concluded that Hamlet should ... be considered a tragicomedy. It is quite obvious why it would be considered a tragedy. The King of Denmark is killed and the murderer resumes power of the country. The...

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