people who dislike this play are the ones who view common sense over being rational, and prefer to view the world in a structured way, One of the main arguments that come across is the 'meeting, falling in love, and dying all in a weekend when Juliet is but', We all must die in the end, so wouldn't you want to in the name of love than of an awful disease
Perhaps the two lovers weren't truly in love, but their last living moments were spent believing so, so what does it matter How can one truly know if one is in love Is it a feeling In that case, what is a feeling If you believe you are in love, then you may as well be, contrary to what others might say.
The argument with the 'weak' plot Shakespeare didn't invent Romeo and Juliet, It was infact a poem which is constantly being adapted over time, Shakespeare did add in some aspects but the meeting in the ballroom, Tybalts death, the sleeping draught and such were already in the poem,
I personally love this play, purely because it's an escape from this modern world, I'm not saying I like the treatment of women, nor the fighting, but it's like a different world that i'm never going to experience, and reading it through Shakespeare's gorgeous writing makes Verona seem all the more romantic.
I faked my death prank gone wrong not clickbait we died Fuckin around and finding out in fair Verona, True confessions time: I've read Romeo and Juliet at least once,
maybe more probably it was in one of my college English courses and mostly thought, great poetry, but GAH! silly kids! idiotic people! I've seen it on stage once or twice one production cast Romeo's family entirely with black actors and Juliet's family with white ones, to bring the feuding a little closer to home, I guess.
It was interesting, but still, didn't really move me, I'm sure I teared up during the final scene, but I'm easy to manipulate emotionally that way, Books and movies make me cry All, The. Time. It's not a major achievement,
And then I saw the movie Shakespeare in Love on cable TV, years after it was in the theaters, The movie has Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow doing numerous scenes from RampJ together, not to mention a little Dame Judi Dench on the side, which always helps, and I totally ate it up.
The actors were amazing, and it hit me right in the heart,
So all of that is to say that yes, Shakespeare is a genius, but sometimes it just takes the right set of actors in one of his shows to make you love it emotionally as well as intellectually.
Which reminds me of my favorite actors ever in a Shakespeare production, Oberon and Puck in sitelinkA Midsummer Night's Dream, . . but that's a different story, in fair verona, where we lay our scene, .
i went to verona this past weekend and there is a very special experience that comes from reading a story in the same place where it is set.
the city has a very romantic feel to it, but its a gentle and quiet romance, which is completely different from the urgent and desperate love between romeo and juliet,
we could argue for days about whether or not romeo and juliet were actually in love with each other let alone old enough to know what love is but, for me, my focus isnt the story.
its how its told. the writing in this is so lovely even when tybalt gets called a saucy boy lololol, i think shakespeare is a genius and the way his characters express love and longing and desire in this is really something else,
come, gentle night come, loving, blackbrowed night
give me my romeo and, when i shall die,
take him and cut him out in little,
and he will make the face of heaven so fine
that all the world will be in love with night.
maybe i just fell under the spell of city, or maybe shakespeares words really do have a profound effect on the reader, but i enjoyed this play and these starcrossed lovers.
and its true what the prince says, for never was a story of more woe than this of juliet and her romeo,
,stars
It is always so satisfying to read a book you've heard so much about throughout your life, You should have seen how excited I got when Juliet started saying "Romeo, o Romeo"! ROMEO: Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talkst of nothing,
MERCUTIO: True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind.
Read this one many years ago so it was time for a reread, Witty, sarcastic, and sad, enjoyed it all over again, every time someone refers to romeo and juliet as the greatest romance of all time, a pretentious high school english teacher's pet writing their final paper on how stupid these two bozos are loses their wings.
part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago, and also roast myself I don't know if fortunately or unfortunately, but I read the book in Shakespearean English.
I did understand it, but it was so difficult, I got the plot and stuff, I understood the story, the way it is written, I like the story a lot, the ending even more! In my opinion, it is a bit too long, but I still recommend it, I think it will be better to read it in "normal" English, since I read it like that short time ago and it's much easier to understand it and it can be read in a much more fluent way.
I recommend you to read it in normal English, it's easier to chew it, Good play! My first reaction when the read was over is why on earth it took me so long to read this beautiful work of Shakespeare having it physically with me all this while.
Perhaps, I thought I didn't really need to read it since I know the story from the movie adaptations I have watched, How foolish! I had no idea what I had missed for so long,
I have never enjoyed Shakespearean writing as much as I did in this play, It is passionate, lyrical, and humorous, It is amazing that you find all these in a tragedy only a great master can accomplish that feat, The story is both romantic and tragic, as we well know, But what is incredible is that the play is a "beautiful" tragedy,
This is one of the most outstanding plays that I have read, I loved it. I haven't read many Shakespearean tragedies, and in my mind, no tragedy will outmatch the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, It certainly will be my favourite Shakespearean tragedy, "Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo ", . The ultimate love story,years old, you may ask why William Shakespeare's narrative , the poetry, a tragic saga drenched in beauty, the words are magical , a reader will be entranced by its imagery , no one could be better.
. . really a long exquisite poem disguised as a play set in theth century of the Renaissance, in Verona, Italy during the turbulent age of petty kingdoms , fierce wars and passionate times.
The short but interesting lives, young marriages and early exists, the atmosphere thick with unseen calamities, . . Romeo , a Montague, loves Juliet, a Capulet, . . that is a big problem, the two teenagers don't care or understand the long lasting bloody feud, between their families, Hate is not them, passion is, . . the opposite a great love consumes the immature couple , after just a few hours of knowing each other they impulsively decide on a secret marriage, Romeo had gone with his friends to a perilous, masquerade party given annually by Juliet's father, at his house, the sumptuous feast is strictly off limits to their archenemies the Montagues, of course this makes for a rather tantalizing challenge, brave or moronic , the youths want some excitement.
. . The Montague stranger immediately falls in love with this supposedly loathsome girl , of the rival evil clan, the daughter of the leader , the couple are smitten, . . not knowing their true identities, yet nothing matters to Romeo and Juliet, even after the revelations, . . except feelings, too much so it will cause heartache, Then reality sets in Mercutio a good friend of Romeo's, is slain in a tawdry street brawl, by Tybalt Juliet's cousin, . . the lover of hers seeks revenge and kills the Capulet, Now what Juliet must decide, stay loyal to the family or continue to be a wife, their secret marriage performed by Friar Lawrence, he naively believed the joining of the two would end the foolish conflict.
. . Nevertheless blood flows again, even the Prince in the city cannot stop the animosity, his threatened harsh penalties, including death, does nothing to calm the situation, Romeo is banished forever from town, the distraught daughter of a Capulet is told to marry Count Paris a relative of the ruler Prince Escalus, . . How can ayearold girl, not quite a woman, cope, Her adoring servant, who raised her, yet an uneducated nurse, tells Juliet to marry Paris and forget her first wedding, . . Will she Friar Lawrence has a dangerous plan, . . the only hope for the pair, it could result in a happy solution, A story that will be read again and again, . . love is always in fashion , especially the kind that engulfs every walking minute in a young life, . . they know nothing else. .