Shakespeare's delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. ... At the Capulet ball in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, all of the characters speak in blank verse, but when Romeo and Juliet converse, they speak in sonnet form. ... Bernstein and Robbins translated Shakespeare's spoken word into modern dance techniques (Gravely 1). ... Identical to Romeo and Juliet, love is their sole concern. ... Just as Romeo and Juliet represent Elizabethan Italian disputes, West Side Story re...

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The production that I selected to critically review is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann's version of forbidden love and the eventual suicide deaths of young Juliet and Romeo is translated with a unique integration of modern setting and language without losing the original texture and meaning of Shakespeare's work. 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is evidently intended for a younger demographic of viewers, partially due to quick paced and choppy editing, modern cultural allusions, as well as star power consisting of a cast ...

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It uniquely combines modern day setting and characters withtheoriginallanguage. ... Instead of being a costume drama set in the 15th century, Romeo and Juliet is transposed to modern-day Verona Beach. ... In the Luhrman version the dress is close to modern day attire, Hawaiian shirts and tuxedos. ... This is a very good way of not altering the script but staying close to a modern day likeness of the play. At the end of the scene where Prince Escalus says that if the two families fight again there will be deaths, Luhrman's version, he has used the modern day equivalent of a prince,...

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His literature works written over 400 years ago, have survived the challenge of time, so much so that Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems are still considered to this day an integral facet within the study of culture, society and language. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... 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 Vi...

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