Romeo and Juliet
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Anne-Marie Duff: why playing Margot Fonteyn hurt Luke Jennings...dancers have, a confidence in the beauty you can create." In the end, she learned an entire mime scene from Giselle and the death scene from Romeo and Juliet, and in the film carries off both very creditably indeed. Duff doesn't look... In this article: Anne-Marie Duff, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, The Turning Point, and Romeo and Juliet |
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Athens Banner-Herald | 1 day ago
Spotted®: The focus is on you!
...Steven Stein, son of Jack and Sue Stein of Athens, appeared in four recent performances of Lawrence University's production of "Romeo and Juliet," an 80-minute modernized take on Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers.
In this article: Psychology, Lawrence University, Madison County, and Bread
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Entertainment Weekly | 3 days ago
'New Moon': Switching 'Teams'?
...it's also that there are no negative consequences for her destructive behavior. That's what people keep missing when they drag up the Romeo & Juliet comparisons. Meredith I've always been a Jacob fan and the movie reinforces that and...
In this article: Harry Potter, Twilight, New Moon, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Stephenie Meyer
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iVillage - Entertainment | 5 days ago
Why 'New Moon' Doesn't Suck
...to these characters, mortal or not . As for sexuality, New Moon is more chaste than Franco Zefferelli's 1968 classic teen tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. I saw that when I was 9 and it was my favorite movie until Harold and Maude. That...
In this article: New Moon, Taylor Lautner, Vampires, Stephenie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Suicide, and William Shakespeare
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Music review: Riccardo Muti conducts New York Philharmonic beautifully
...of Juliet's music, or a little violin figure circling up out of the massed instruments at the end of the ballet. On a program of tone poems, "Romeo and Juliet" became the dramatic heart, from the opening that piled dissonances up into a huge...
In this article: Riccardo Muti, New York Philharmonic, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Tybalt, Alan Gilbert, Cynthia Phelps, and Sergei Prokofiev
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Kansas City Star | 6 days ago
Review One-man show an entertaining trip through literature, theater
...actor, would be the ideal guy to convince high-school kids that Shakespeare is anything but boring. His performances of material from Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Henry V, among others, were often riveting. But his anecdotes collected from...
In this article: Roger Rees, William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Literature, Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry V, and Great Expectations
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Independent.ie | November 20, 2009
Zac Efron: Claire is so beautiful
...was the star of hit teen drama My So Called Life but hit Hollywood in style with when she played the titular role in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet. But Zac has an army of admirers of his own, wherever he goes in the world, thanks to his...
In this article: Claire Danes, Zac Efron, Orson Welles, Baz Luhrmann, High School Musical, My So Called Life, and Hollywood
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washingtonpost.com | November 19, 2009
Movie review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
...those who violate them. Which is what Edward plans to do by exposing himself as a vampire to the mortal world. Sound a little like "Romeo and Juliet," or its spinoff "West Side Story"? It should. At times, the dueling fashion...
In this article: Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, New Moon, Jacob Black, The Twilight Saga, Taylor Lautner, Wolf, Kristen Stewart, and Stephenie Meyer
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Independent.ie | November 17, 2009
Once bitten, forever smitten -- Meet the 'Twilight' nerds ...
...Stephenie Meyer could be the modern day Shakespeare. "Twilight comes up all the time in English class," she reveals. "We're studying Romeo and Juliet for the Junior Cert, and while it's not as extreme, there are loads of similarities to...
In this article: Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, Harry Potter, William Shakespeare, and Hogwarts
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PR Newswire: Health / Biotech | November 17, 2009
Romeo and Juliette Laser Hair Removal Is First Center in New York City to Own Cynosure's New Elite MPX(TM) Laser System
...Consumer & Cosmetics, Retail, Health Care & Hospitals, Medical Equipment, Supplementary Medicine, New Products & Services Romeo and Juliette Laser Hair Removal Is First Center in New York City to Own Cynosure's New Elite MPX(TM) Laser...
In this article: Romeo and Juliette, New York City, Lipolysis, and Europe
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washingtonpost.com | November 16, 2009
FACTBOX-Edward Woodward, The Wicker man, dies
...a host of audio books that made fine use of his mastery of the spoken word. He performed in such Shakespearean productions as "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," "Pericles," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Measure for Measure" before scoring a...
In this article: Edward Woodward, The Wicker Man, Tim Woodward, The Equalizer, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Kingston College, and Measure for Measure
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both, but developed supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris, in order to expand the plot. Believed to be written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. This text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare's original text.
Shakespeare's use of dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play.
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