When was Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet meant to be set? (eg 17th century)?
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By looking at the costumes, it seems to be Italy of the late 1400s.  Have a look at some of these:\n\nhttp://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/medivBonnard.htm\n\nHowever, I don't know how accurate the film's costumes were (not having seen it for a long time).  This period is most likely.\n\nAfter some more research: yes, around the late 1400s in Italy, and possibly into the early 1500s.\n\nTake a look at the bottom half of this page:\nhttp://www.marquise.de/en/1400/pics/1400b.shtml\n\nAnd this page:\nhttp://www.marquise.de/en/1500/pics/index.shtml\n\nSouthern Mediterranean fashion differed somewhat from the more northern areas, and I think Zeffirelli caught the mood of the times rather than represented it with detailed accuracy.
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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Ok, I will help - but I will not give you the answers, that's not help.  If the Shakespearean-era language is difficult to get through, I suggest checking out a noted version of the play (Penguin Publishing has some excellent, quite affordable paperback versions) to help you understand who's saying what.  You might also try to find a full production of the play or a video version. (Zeffirelli's is visually stunning, but leaves out a lot of the by-play.  The newer version with DiCaprio & what's-her-name is visually odd, but leaves in more of the dialogue.  Most libraries also will have the odd BBC or Canadian production in their media library, and these are usually complete dialogue without anything too extreme in the way of visuals.)\n\n1. Think about social conventions of the time - Juliet is a young, unmarried but highly marriageable woman.  Also, think about any parents' natural reaction if they were to find their daughter in the company of any young man - especially if that young man was a member of a family you hated.\n\n2 & 4 are very closely related.  Think about modern divorce rates in marriages that are made quickly - then think about a society where annulments were possible but difficult and divorce as such was not really an option.\n\n3. Reread the scene, and think about Juliet being a young woman besotted, while the nurse is somewhat of a doddering old lady who tends to ramble on and on and on (and some of her lines do amount to Elizabethan toilet humour, by the way).\n\n5.  Think about the purpose of a foil.  Mercutio & Nurse are both close to the main characters, and marginally involved/possibly condoning their behaviours.  Pick out a few key points in the act and you should have no trouble getting 8 to 10 sentences.  For example, do these characters encourage this lovelorn behaviour between the main characters? How? Why?\n\nPersonal sidenote/pet peeve about this play: Why does everyone perform the Queen Mab speech as though it's a huge dramatic foreshadowing?  It is, even the densest people grasp that after seeing the play once - but keep in mind Mercutio's playful, sarcastic character - why on earth would he of a sudden burst into this long prophetic rant?  I've gotten a few people to read it as a mocking, sarcastic sort of monologue, and have been far more pleased with it...
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Personally, I think that Friar Lawrence was trying to set up a sexual encounter with Juliet.  Sort of like a medieval version of trolling for teenaged girls on chat lines.  Lucky thing the letter never got through.  A reporter from Dateline NBC might have been waiting for him.
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Shakespeare\n\nHamlet
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For me its a toss up between the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and the death scene in the same play.  Both show love's hold on the star-crossed lovers. For some reason Romeo's last line "And thus with a kiss I die" just stays with me. It may be easier to feign a tomb than make a balcony.
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Please don't take those responses of "sex before marriage" and illicit love as the breach of innocence in R & J.  The love of Romeo and Juliet is in itself representative of innocence.  The breach comes with the societal folly surrounding them.  It is through that imposition that they seek to consummate their love in a clandestine way, and that may indicate a breach of innocence, but the essence of their romance keeps its integrity.  The death of the two lovers is evidence that the innocnce is not broken; for both Romeo and Juliet would rather take on death than destroy what they have together.
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ahh geeze... not this question again.  just read the play...  Juliet's father moves up the wedding date thus forcing Romeo and Juliet to create the elaborate fake death plan
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the only werewolf movie i know is interview with a werewolf. it was set around the 1600's
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The theme of romeo and juliet...my stab would be romantic tradegy...oh and tomorrow is spelled like that :)\n\nedit : and im dyslexic its tragedy lol
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go to http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/ and you will find the answer.  This play is explained - line by line - in every day language
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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Nostradamus?  that was in the 16th century though...
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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I think the way that society has portrayed it is completely stupid. Romeo and Juliet were young kids but everyone seems to think that they were grown.
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