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Pretty much just an amazing work by an amazing artistic man |
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The book reminds me of my best friends life she is prohibited to go around the boy she likes |
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It's my absolute favorite.
I love being Juliet!!! |
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The plot is original and has been used reputedly in televison. |
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It certainly is a wonderful classic. Shakespeare manipulates his diction in a beautiful way. His
characters are illustrated to teach the audience not to follow rash passions and emotions, which
would lead to their own tragedy like the one of Romeo and Juliet. His works are what I consider true
literature. |
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I agree. I studied this story back at school and found it very enjoyable. It is a classic. The story
is very beautiful and so is the language. It is such a tragic tale, but that just makes it even more
romantic and inspiring. |
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Certainly the language is incomparable, and I would agree with the 'play' side of the motion, but
not so much as a story (although the plot has inspired books and films for years since), but to say
one of the most famous works of Shakespeare is not, as i'm_trumpet puts it, an 'awesome' piece of
literature, would be utterly and indisputably wrong. |
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“Romeo and Juliet,” while moving, is considered the lesser of Shakespeare’s four great
tragedies, which include “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” and “King Lear.”
But the beautiful language, first-love plot, and mixture of slapstick or punning comedy and tragedy
in the play appeals to all ages, especially youth.
These same factors make the play one of the Bard’s most accessible, which is why it is so widely
assigned in schools and perennially performed.
For all of the cornball jokes made about Juliet’s famous line, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art
thou, Romeo?” Shakespeare wrote few passages more purely beautiful than Romeo’s response to this
line, while he hides under Juliet’s window, “Hark, what light through yonder window breaks? It
is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
“Romeo and Juliet” has received about as many, and as varied, film adaptations as has
“Hamlet” -- although, personally, I could do without the most recent ones. |
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Of all of Shakespeare’s plays it is my least favorite. There is some good language and Mercutio is
a fun character but I just could never get into the ‘tragic romance’ meat of the play. Romeo and
Juliet just seemed like shallow selfish children who heedlessly destroyed themselves and those
around them. I’m a Shakespeare fan, I’ve seen his work performed on stage several dozen times,
I’ve read almost all of his work, and some of it multiple times but this story always annoyed me. |
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Not really it's kind boring. |
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I don't know that it's necessarily awesome, certainly it's a classic, but from today's standards it
really is a pretty silly story. Shakespeare was the pulp writer of his day, I think he'd be rather
surprised we're still reading his material hundreds of years later, it was never meant to withstand
the test of time. |
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I don't think so. For me, they were stupid, and they should check thoroughly before killing
themselves. |
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25 Apr 2008 13:26
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