Aubrey Bryan. In "Romeo and Juliet." Drama for Students. Encyclopedia.com. Web. 04 June 2017.
1. Encyclopedia.com is an online encyclopedia that provides free information, articles, or references from various credible sources such as Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. This online encyclopedia does not let anyone rewrite references or information which is what gives this site its credibility, as they make sure information is accurate before publishing.
2. On this online encyclopedia, there is a page dedicated to Romeo & Juliet filled with various resources and information; one such source being an essay on Zeffirelli 's and Luhrmann’s version of Romeo & Juliet by Bryan Aubrey. In this essay, Aubrey compares the two films
…show more content…
04 June 2017.
1. The New World Encyclopedia is a free online encyclopedia primarily intended for students and teachers that are considered about quality or credibility. Due to this reason, this online encyclopedia prides itself on its “traditional editorial supervision by scholars” along with their traditional values. The New World Encyclopedia carries itself through scholarly content but also has the benefit of hyperlinks to greater efficiency of research and convince.
2. The New World Encyclopedia includes a lengthy and extensive section on Romeo & Juliet with a copious amount of information or aspects pertaining to the play. In one part, it examines the film adaptations of Romeo & Juliet and discusses the thought process when trying to adapt Shakespeare’s works cinematically. The end of the fourth act being a major focus. This material will help further my understanding and argument of the sacrifices that need to be made to have Shakespearean plays effective on the big screen; especially for modern audiences.
Primary Sources
West Side Story. Wise, Robert, Jerome Robbins, and Arthur Laurents. Santa Monica: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 1961.Film.
1. West Side Story is a 1961 musical film by Robert Wise that is heavily influenced by William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. The film is not only a re-imagination of Romeo & Juliet but also an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical version of West Side Story. This re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet takes place in 1957 Manhattan
The narrative voices in songs and literature through male characters express enthusiastic responses to female characters. “Michelle” lyrical song created by Sir Paul McCartney that was performed at the White House for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Sir Paul McCartney’s song “Michelle” is a song coming from the standpoint of man who feels immense admiration towards a woman. The viewer assumes that due to the male character speaking in French in sections of the song, they infer that Michelle only speaks French. The next piece is literature, the lines 44-53 of Romeo and Juliet are an excerpt of a play by William Shakespeare.
There he was, lying in agony in the dark and weary night, next to his beloved's tomb in the ominous cemetery. Seeing the vile creature, Death, take away her soul from his hands. Death insisted to come with him with his hands filled with the white bones of the dead, he came along without hesitation. The well-known tragedy, Romeo, and Juliet by William Shakespeare was a transcendent illustration of the effects of the underdeveloped adolescent brain. The two star-crossed lovers had their destiny planned in front of them. The tragic and mournful deaths of Romeo and Juliet resulted from their impromptu love taking over their everyday lives. Romeo laid on the murky ground of the cemetery, weeping in front of the tomb of Juliet and he would soon kill
Both writers are instructors in higher education settings, and are agreeable in the fact that Wikipedia has become successful as an online anonymous open-source encyclopedia containing over 1.6 million entries. They further share agreement that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of good factual quality information due to the nature of its assembly. This is where Wilson and Waters begin their independent views and opposing arguments about solutions for correcting and making Wikipedia a more viable and reliable source of information.
1. Wikipedia helps people find other, more credible sources to cite. They lead people to different and more credible cites and more vast information (Davidson 167). It is also pretty accurate a good amount of the time as well; if does not have many errors and they can and are fixed as soon as they are discovered (Davidson 167).
There are different sources of information concerning different subjects and disciplines sources ranges from the written material, unwritten to the electronic, material materials such as those found in the internet. Among all these sources of information the electronic sources such as the open found in the internet have acted as the best sources of information. The online line material can serve a large group of people at a go, it is also easy to access the information as it only relies on the press of a button and the whole information is found, to make matters also easier the online sources of information have their own ways of translating information to the desired language to ease the understanding by the different people globally who are
do all the things he did which led to his death. He said that she
Shakespeare’s original play, Romeo and Juliet reflected the important Elizabethan concerns in relation to authority, law and order, making it relevant to the audiences’ morals and values of the time, as well
Firstly, one contrast between the two stories would be Romeo’s character. In the Zeffirelli version, Romeo is
We have reached the halfway point for our classes. It is amazing how quickly time gets going once homework starts coming due. This week we are discussing unreliability in our research sources. This is an extremely important topic because one bad piece of information in your paper can lead to a loss of credibility. The first topic for our forum this week is why Wikipedia is an unreliable and unaccepted source. Plan and simple, anyone can go on a Wikipedia page and change the information to whatever they want. I have known this for a long time. I was very fortunate to have a college professor who informed our class that the idea of Wikipedia is letting anyone post material about anything they want. This includes changing text
It is fascinating how the most famous plays in history have the most tragic endings. They are not what we would imagine a normal fairy tale ending to be like. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as star-crossed lovers. In the opening scene, the chorus states that Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers from opposing families who were destined to fall in love and eventually die together. Juliet’s parents have the perfect life planned for Juliet. She has the perfect fiancé, she was going to have a great family, and live happily until the day she died. But then it was love at first sight for Romeo and Juliet. They both know it was the wrong thing to do, but they went with it. Despite their best
he is no longer in charge of everyone in the family. It can be seen
When comparing the two versions of the movie, Romeo and Juliet, the traditional version is more similar than the modern version to the play. It includes more similarities such as the setting, the weapons and technology used, and the way the story ended. When examining all of these specific points, it is clear that the traditional version is more alike to the play. The settings play a huge role in the story. The play takes place in Verona.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet “Romeo and Juliet” is a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595, which is over 400 years ago. Romeo and Juliet are “two star-crossed lovers”, who fell in love at first sight and struggle through circumstances, which ends with their death. There are some characters that are to blame for their deaths and some more than others. The Montagues are someway to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of the feud have with the Capulets.
Opening on September 19th, 2013 and closing on December 8th, 2013, Romeo and Juliet, performed at The Richard Rodgers Theatre, was nothing short of impactful. Under the direction of David Leveaux, Romeo and Juliet ran for a total of 93 performances. The Design team includes artists Jesse Poleshuck, Fabio Toblini, David Weiner, and David Van Tieghem; These famous artists only add to the star power leading man, Orlando Bloom, brings to the production. Produced by James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Merritt Forrest Baer, Paula Marie Black, Stephen C. Byrd, Alia Jones Harvey, Jon B. Platt, Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, this production is not short of funding. However, the show did not gross as much as expected; Falling flat in the box office after an initial spike, the shows’ earnings continued to fall (Playbill). The 2013 revival of Romeo and Juliet is significant because it tells the story of a love that goes beyond race and stature—it takes a timeless story, and adds a contemporary spin.
In many literary works, there are methods that authors use to make a story better. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, dramatic irony is the driving method. Dramatic irony is something in which characters do not know something, but the reader or audience knows what the true reality is. According to some researchers, “A staple of Elizabethan and Shakespearean drama was dramatic irony” (Halio 25). Furthermore some researchers also belive that dramatic irony is very prominent in the play, “ One of the more prominent literary devices in the play is irony” (Sauer 673). Romeo and Juliet, and also their friends and families face a lot of instances of dramatic irony in the story. Dramatic irony creates suspense and adds to