Romeo and JulietSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy. |
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... Scene-setters Gregory and Sampson, servants of the Capulets (Juliet's family), to get straight to the business of ridiculing the rival Montagues (Romeo's team) in terms more like stand-up comedy than school-curriculum Eng Lit. But ...
... scene, placed the tale in period, but with a distinctly 1960s message. Zeffirelli was determined to persuade audiences that the centuries-old saga was relevant to modern times, explaining that the drama turned principally on the 'total ...
... CITIZENS of Verona; KINSFOLK of both houses; MASKERS, GUARDS, WATCHMEN, and ATTENDANTS. CHORUS. SCENE — Verona; once, in the fifth act, at Mantua. PROLOGUE Enter CHORUS. CHORUS Two households, both alike in dignity, 1 ROMEO AND JULIET.
... scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Doth with ...
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