... Love compels him to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter, risking death simply to catch a glimpse of her; anger compels him to kill his wife's cousin in a reckless duel to avenge the death of his friend, and despair compels him to suicide upon hearing of Juliet's death. Such extreme behavior dominates Romeo's character throughout the play, and contributes to the ultimate ... tragedy that befalls the lovers. Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society ... , religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and pass...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... character' and how it is 'stipulated' within specific works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) which transpires during the fictional development of the play Romeo ... , although not always subservient were consistently governed by patriarchal views and therefore gained power only through the presence of masculinity. ...

• Word Count: 1880
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... by Nicholas Sparks), "Anna Karenina" (Leo Tolstoy) etc. Also the romance genre has a range of subgenres: Romantic Drama ( "Last Tango in Paris", "Water for Elephants",  "A Walk to Remember"), Chic Flick ( "Dirty Dancing", "Romeo+Juliet"), Romantic Comedies (" Love Actually", "Moonstruck"), Romantic Action Comedies ("Killers", & ... quot;Knight and Day", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "This Means War"), Romantic Thriller ("The Phantom of the Opera", "The Tourist", "The Bodyguard"). ... music and calm romantic settings (e.g. on the lake), the weather (+ lighting) changes with the mood of the s...

• Word Count: 931
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... characters Antony and Cleopatra would have been accessible to any audience through time, but they would not necessarily have the ability to relate to them as superhuman. Cleopatra is a tempestuous character of infinite variety but also "no more but e"en a woman." This is a play in which human figures are elevated in keeping with classical literary traditions and mythology. Yet Shakespeare is ... , with a moral sense of duty and social order. The emotion of passionate love, is comprehensible to the audience of any time, "(Cleopatra's) passions are made of nothing but the finest part of p...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate