... the most famous duplications of this play. Although the two versions differ, many of the characters have similarities. West Side Story's Tony, Maria, and Anita portray modern day characters of Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse. "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then oh brawling love, oh, loving ... to the Capulet ball, he is going to see Rosaline, not to help set up a fight like Tony is doing when he goes to the dance to help Riff out. Both Romeo and Tony try to stop the fight between their respective sides, but both end up killing someone instead. When ... One of the larg...

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West Side Story In West Side Story, themes of love, tragedy, and justice are brought to life in dance, song, and music. Leonard Bernstein created a musical based on the Romeo and Juliet story. This updated version is set amid a turf war of two ... rival street gangs in New York City. The hostility between the Jets and their Puerto Rican rivals, the Sharks, is a modern day counter play of the feud between the Capulet and the Montagues from Shakespeare's play. In this heartbreaking tale, Tony, one of the Jets, and Maria, the sister ... of Bernardo, meet at a dance and immediately fall in love....

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... death-marked" lovers (Shakespeare 1). Throughout the play as a reader it is sensed as well as assumed that the hatred between both families goes back centuries. The modern movie version of the play, Romeo and Juliet, differs from Shakespeare's play in setting and clothing, how the characters meet, how the lovers take their lives, ... an example of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The story takes place in Verona, Mantua. Baz Lubrmann sets the modern day version William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Verona Beach, Florida in a modern day society. There are many different settings a...

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