Romeo And Juliet Reading Analysis

Reading has been around for ages and is a fun hobby that improves spelling, vocabulary, speech, and many other literary skills. The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a great example of how reading entertains and teaches the reader. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about the death of two lovers. The lover’s death is caused by many different things, the biggest being the role the parents played. There are three pairs of parents, or caretakers, in this story. The biological parents of Romeo

1. Title, author, author's dates, date of first performance, period of play. Title: Romeo and Juliet Author: Shakepeare (Born in 1564-died in 1616) First Performance: 1662 Time Period: 1300s 2. Awards, if any, the play has won. Not sure about this, I could only find awards that the movie won. 3. Main characters and their relationship (e.g., in THE BACCHAE by Euripides, Pentheus, the king, is the main character; he is the son of Agaue. Other major characters and their relationships would be noted

learning segment. The central focus of this learning segment is to read and understand act 2, scenes 3-6 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and to use this understanding to interpret deeper character motivations and characterization. Students will use close reading to find evidence to support their interpretations and will write short paragraphs on characterization. Close reading is the process of critically analyzing a text and focusing on significant details without referencing or referring to information

Davies, Anthony. "The film versions of Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare Survey 49(1996):153-162 Web. 22 May 2017. 1. In this Journal articles by Anthony Davies, he attempts to trace, compare, and analyze the play of Romeo & Juliet’s life throughout cinema. To do this, Anthony does a close reading of four different films directed by Cukor, Zeffirelli, Alvin Rakoff, and the BBC. With these films, Anthony delves into them while dissecting specific scenes to compare how they are different or similar

Lehmann, Courtney. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: The Relationship between Text and Film. London: Methuen Drama, 2011. Print. 1. 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

ROMEO AND JULIET William Shakespeare Why is the text so widely studied and relevant today? INTRODUCTION Since the death of world renowned poet and writer; William Shakespeare in 1616, regardless of opinion, his artistic and enthralling pieces of writing and performances has shaped the English language as we know it in modern times due to his extensive incorporation of new words, gripping scenarios, language techniques and themes. One of his most influential pieces of work: “Romeo and Juliet” is

A Psychological Analysis of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet was obviously not written to fit the psychoanalytic model, as the theories of Freud were not developed for centuries after Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote to Renaissance England, a culture so heavily steeped in Christianity, that it would have blushed at the instinctual and sexual thrust of Freud’s theory. However, in order to keep literature alive and relevant, a culture must continually reinterpret the themes and ideas of past works

Honors Close Reading Essay In the ‘timeless classic’ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author brilliantly utilizes several literary devices to convey the motif that true love cannot be stopped. He does this by using many opposing ideas such as love vs. pain, day vs. night and In the passage spoken by Friar Laurence Act IV, Scene V, he says “For though some nature bids us all lament, Yet nature’s tears are reason’s for merriment”. This says that nature may bring reason to mourn, but

though which was a bad decision. Many characters in the play had at least one unexplained kind activity, that led to the death of the two young lovers. An analysis of the play will make it clear that misguided kindness caused

great deal of underlying techniques mentioned in the article that I had not realized Shakespeare used to build up and break down the crowd and in that way it aided me in learning more of the famous poet’s M.O. Thrasher, Thomas. Understanding Romeo and Juliet: Understanding Great Literature. Lucent Books, 2001. In this non fiction piece, there