... that when Shakespeare wrote this play (1600-1700) sonnets were a very popular form of poetry so people would have wanted to come and see his play. Just as the 1997 film "Romeo and Juliet" uses a news bulletin to present the prologue because modern audiences are used to information being interpreted this way, Shakespeare used a sonnet ... that Verona is a place of beauty and prestige. However, the word fair also means equal, which is quite ironic, as it could be asking whether or not the argument between the two families is fair or not. At the end of the line there is a section of text in ...

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... authority of man. The degree of violence is to the greater extreme in ""Romeo Must Die"" with the use of powerful machine guns and bombs, as opposed to the use of swords in ""Romeo and Juliet"". This change reflects that my audience requires a greater amount of action and suspense to feel satisfaction with a text. It also displays the change in context of the pieces, as swords were ... contexts are vastly different. The techniques I chose were deliberate in attempting to use the ones that would greater capture and satisfy my audience. In "Romeo and Juliet", language is the most importan...

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... in today's society are more respectable than in earlier times, acting as a medium that easily feeds Shakespearean texts and universal themes to mass audiences. Like the respectability gained by some recent proliferation of appropriated Shakespearean texts. Particularly in the film "Romeo and Juliet" composed by Australian director Baz Lurham. Where it attracted not only just older more mature audiences but rather ... a wider range of teenagers through its change in context and style but still keeping the original theme of love tragedy with a modernized outlook. What I"m suggesting here i...

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