... as they are both very witty, sharp and perceptive they start their relationship with a hate-love relation and as it evolves Shakespeare ends the play by resolving it. Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False ... a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admits he is in love with, Rosaline, and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation. Romeo's exaggerated language in his early speeches characterizes him as a young and ine...

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... of mine since I was in High School to direct a transformation of the classic play. I used my knowledge of the techniques and factors that were relevant during Elizabethan times and which Shakespeare included in ""Romeo and Juliet"" to develop a modern transformation of the play, the film ""Romeo Must Die"". In developing the transformation I took the differences and similarities between the two ... with the male sex. The development of Maurice into a somewhat nasty character is intentional to reflect my belief that the Nurse acquires a less nurturing role when Juliet refuses Paris's marr...

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