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    Essay: "About My Favourite Shakespearean Play and One of Its Film Versions and How It Compares To The Actual Play."

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    The document compares William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet to the 1996 film adaptation Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann. It provides background on Shakespeare's original play, setting the famous story of the star-crossed lovers in 16th century Verona, Italy. It then discusses how Luhrmann's modern adaptation transported the classic tale to 1990s America, depicting the feuding families as mafia gangs and replacing swords with guns while retaining Shakespeare's original dialogue. Key differences between the play and film are noted, such as changes to some character names and shifts in some plot details.

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    The document compares William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet to the 1996 film adaptation Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann. It provides background on Shakespeare's original play, setting the famous story of the star-crossed lovers in 16th century Verona, Italy. It then discusses how Luhrmann's modern adaptation transported the classic tale to 1990s America, depicting the feuding families as mafia gangs and replacing swords with guns while retaining Shakespeare's original dialogue. Key differences between the play and film are noted, such as changes to some character names and shifts in some plot details.

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    The document compares William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet to the 1996 film adaptation Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann. It provides background on Shakespeare's original play, setting the famous story of the star-crossed lovers in 16th century Verona, Italy. It then discusses how Luhrmann's modern adaptation transported the classic tale to 1990s America, depicting the feuding families as mafia gangs and replacing swords with guns while retaining Shakespeare's original dialogue. Key differences between the play and film are noted, such as changes to some character names and shifts in some plot details.

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    Essay

    ”About my favourite Shakespearean play and one of its


    film versions and how it compares to the actual play.”

    National University of Theatre and


    Film “I.L. Caragiale

    2018
    William Shakespeare, also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called England's
    national poet and considered the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare's works are
    known throughout the world. Occupies a position unique in world literature. Other
    poets, such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens.
    William Shakespeare's early plays were written in the conventional style of the day, with
    elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases that didn't always align naturally with the
    story's plot or characters. However, Shakespeare was very innovative, adapting the
    traditional style to his own purposes and creating a freer flow of words.

    I have read many Shakespeare plays, but Romeo and Juliet are the favorite
    play.Comparison between "Romeo and Juliet" theater and "Romeo plus Juliet" modern
    movie.

    "Romeo and Juliet"


    Romeo and Juliet, played
    by William Shakespeare,
    written about 1594-96
    and first published in an
    unuthorized quarto in
    1597. Shakespeare sets
    the scene in Verona, Italy.
    In the tragic romance,
    Romeo and Juliet, William
    Shakespeare shows an
    example of how teenage
    love can embrace the
    feelings of the young but
    also cause destruction,
    not only in their lives but
    also in the lives of people
    around them. This story
    shows how others
    opinions and thoughts can affect people close to them. Juliet and Romeo meet and fall
    instantly in love at a masked ball of the Capulets, and they profess their love when
    Romeo, unwilling to leave, climbs the wall into the orchard garden of her family’s house
    and finds her alone at her window. Because their well-to-do families are enemies, the
    two are married secretly by Friar Laurence. The characters of Romeo and Juliet were
    depicted in literature, music, dance, and theater. The appeal of the young hero and his
    heroine-whose families, the Montagues and the Capulets, respectively, have implacable
    enemies-are such that they have become, in popular imagination, the representative
    type of star-crossed lovers.

    "Romeo + Juliet” movie


    William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (shortened
    to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romantic
    drama film directed, co-produced, and co-written
    by Baz Luhrmann. The film stars Leonardo
    DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles of
    Romeo and Juliet.While it retains the original
    Shakespearean dialogue, the film represents the
    Montagues and the Capulets as warring mafia
    empires (with legitimate business fronts) during
    1990s America, and swords are replaced with
    guns (with brand names such as "Dagger" and
    "Sword"). Some characters' names are also
    changed. Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and
    Lady Capulet are given first names (in the
    original, their first names are never mentioned);
    Friar Laurence becomes Father Laurence, and
    Prince Escalus is renamed Captain Prince. The
    adaptation eliminates the character of Friar John,
    and some characters change families—in the
    original, Gregory and Sampson are Capulets, but in the film, they are Montagues
    (Abram, as Abra, and Petruchio, conversely, are shifted from the Montague to the
    Capulet family). In addition, a few plot details are shifted, most notably toward the
    ending.

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