Shakespeare And Viola De Lesseps

William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, tells the story of the tragic love between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The play has been reinterpreted throughout time and Baz Luhrmann’s film version, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, uses a modern setting to tell the tale. Luhrmann’s cinematic understanding reinforces the key themes of love, fate and hate as he explores Shakespeare’s famous play.

Baz Lurhmann’s creation of the film Romeo and Juliet has shown that today’s audience can still understand and appreciate William Shakespeare. Typically, when a modern audience think of Shakespeare, they immediately think it will be boring, yet Lurhmann successfully rejuvenates Romeo and Juliet. In his film production he uses a number of different cinematic techniques, costumes and a formidably enjoyable soundtrack; yet changes not one word from Shakespeare’s original play, thus making it appeal to a modern audience.

The 1996 film, Romeo and Juliet, is Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of William Shakespeare’s play by the same name. This film is part of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Trilogy where Luhrmann uses a theatre motif in each, with poetry and language being the motif used in Romeo and Juliet. This play was originally written by William Shakespeare who was an English poet, playwright, actor and a man who is considered one of the greatest contributors to English literature as he invented over 1700 now common words and wrote some of the world’s most famous plays. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1595 so Luhrmann had to give the film a contemporary twist but keeps the original themes of forbidden love and young romance to appeal to a modern audience. In the

William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Throughout the play, Shakespeare intentionally draws on text structures and language features in order to replicate the attitudes, values and beliefs of Elizabethan audiences and intertwine it into his

In the different film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zefirelli best conveys an emotional impact through the set design, blocking, and other theatrical elements. Zefirelli also chooses to have the film in the fourteenth century so that Shakespeare’s diction is comprehensible. From this, Zeffirelli adaptation is best conveys the romantic impact Shakespeare intends to emphasize.

In the play `Romeo and Juliet` the writer William Shakespeare uses the theme of love as a main feature to push the story along. Presented are a plethora of variations of love including family love, true love and courtly love. This essay aims to analyse these three types of love chosen.

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

Although the movie did tell the baseline story of the play I don’t think the movie captured what Shakespeare would have liked it to. The story of the play followed the originally play but I think the overall mental image and picture has more to do with the story than the story itself. The movie didn’t capture any of the original settings, or anything in that nature. It kept the story line, but then decided to take its own twist and turn on the vision of the play. The movie version did not in vison what Shakespeare would have wanted or tried to portray in his original

The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well known and influential pieces in English literature; more importantly, most people recognize it as a story of true love, or star-crossed lovers. This play tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, who are from two feuding families. They fall in love with each other, despite being from rivaling families, and face numerous obstacles because of the feud. After a series of tragic events and miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet end up taking their lives for their “true love”. However, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions do not seem to be out of true love as they claim, but rather infatuation. In The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare teaches readers that infatuation can

Shakespeare’s movies progresses its overall theme and value when it is shown into its true original content. The overall context of the book progresses into its overall interest in the point of view of the roleplaying in

Stoppard’s satirical movie, Shakespeare in Love, is a play on Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard places Shakespeare himself into a relationship with Viola De Lesseps, that resembles the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard incorporates countless parallels into the film from Shakespeare’s love story, including the character development of major authority figures. The prince and the queen, Capulet and Viola’s father, and the Friar and the Priest are all figures of authority and parallel between the two works; Stoppard gave his cast similarities to Shakespeare’s characters, but they also varied in some aspects. Stoppard’s decision to both keep some and change some character attributes of these authority figures helps contribute and develop the ending of the movie, just as Shakespeare’s character developments contributed to the outcome of his plays.

He soon decides to hold auditions at The Rose Theatre. He doesn’t find a Romeo until the brave Viola shows up to the auditions, dressed as a man named Thomas Kent. Following the audition, Viola becomes afraid of being found out and runs away. Shakespeare runs after her-- up to her mansion where there is currently a party being held, and he asks to speak with Thomas Kent. At this party, Shakespeare becomes captivated by the beautiful Viola at the same time that her father is promising her to Lord Wessex. After seeing him dance with Viola, Lord Wessex chases Shakespeare away, but not before asking his name. Shakespeare is quick to tell him that his name is Christopher Marlowe, the name of the current playwright for The Curtain Theatre. Having found his muse, Shakespeare soon hands a complete script of Act I to his actors, now calling the play "Romeo and Juliet". He is in a blissful state until he receives a letter from Viola, telling that she must marry Lord Wessex. After a "man to man" conversation about this with Thomas Kent, Shakespeare realizes that Thomas Kent is Viola. After this, the passionate couple spends as much time embracing as possible, whether in rehearsal or in bed, except of course for the times that Will is busy writing down the numerous inspired lines running through his mind. They spend so much time together that Lord

It would be hard to argue the fact that William Shakespeare is one of the greatest contributors to modern English as we know it, his plays and sonnets have been turned into movies, books, and music as well as translated into virtually every language. With that being said, one of his most famous plays is Hamlet. Many movies were based off of this play and a very popular one is Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli. This drama film was produced on December 19th, 1990 and was around 134 minutes long. This movie based off of Shakespeare’s most famous work was a hit, raking in approximately $20.7 million in the box office. Zeffirelli’s motive in making the movie was to make Shakespeare available and interesting to younger viewers. Franco Zeffirelli was successful in recreating the play Hamlet, as the movie added extreme depth to the play making it appealing to all viewers.

The film shows William Shakespeare's actual life. We are watching Will write his own future. All the factors surrounding him influenced what he wrote about. Most obviously, he was inspired to write Romeo and Juliet through his passionate relations with Viola. It made his love story spectacular as his very own love life heated up. In addition, this film took into account a few of Shakespeare's works and not solely on Romeo and Juliet. For example, the scene in which Will is kissing Viola and then has a sudden idea for his famous Sonnet XVIII, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day." This movie shows the true William Shakespeare. It has parts in the movie that have a similarity to all of his works. The most comparison is Romeo and Juliet.

In this book, Lehmann conducts a close study of the film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet to analyze the relationship between them and the original text. Lehmann focuses predominantly on West Side Story, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, and Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet while looking at how the text is adapted into film and the changes within them.