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Twelfth Night is a play written by William Shakespeare to be performed on stage. It was written at around 1600 and about half way through Shakespeare’s career as a playwright. The first recorded production was given at the Hall of the Inner Temple, London in 1602. The play is known has ‘Twelfth Night’ because it…

William Shakespeare wrote three types of play; tragedy, comedy and history. It is well known that “Twelfth Night” is a comedy, but why? It’s not a tragedy because nobody dies during it. It’s not a history because at the time it was not written in the past. It is neither of these so it has…

In the film Romeo and Juliet, we see Shakespeare’s talents captured amazingly by Luhrmann, he takes the original and re-reveals it to enable the people of today to experience the romance for themselves in the style of a modern film. This film targets a wide audience; Lurhmann cleverly allows variety of different themes to widen…

He’s an extraordinary playwright because he tends to handle very large issues–there’s such admirable, courageous ambition in his work. He also has an extremely courageous theatrical sense. Some of the effects he calls for in his plays simply can’t be realized.” With this animated rush of words, Jeff Steitzer talks about Peter Barnes, the English…

The term ‘comedy’ is a story that ends in a happy resolution, often in marriage. Since the ‘Merchant of Venice’ is classed as a romantic comedy, it also involves an engaging heroine. The comedy usually involves a struggle but towards the end, all pieces are supposed to fall into place. “The characters and their discomfitures…

The purpose of the opening scene in many of Shakespeare’s plays was to settle and involve the audience. The audience would be standing and would need a good opening scene to keep their attention from straying. For example in Shakespeare’s Macbeth the opening scene is three witches which would almost certainly grab and involve the…

There are four main themes in the play of Romeo and Juliet. These are love, hate, violence and death. The love occurs between Romeo and Juliet, the children of the two families who have an “ancient grudge”. Whenever the kinsmen of the two families meet, they always seem to fight, verbally and physically. They tease…

Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is one of Shakespeare’s most interesting and well-known plays. It may even be the most well known play in the world! For this reason, many attempts have been made, by a variety of directors, to interpret and present the Shakespearian tale in their own way, tying to make it creative,…

Hollywood has developed many Shakespeare plays into motion pictures, but this does not always reach success. Hollywood does this to increases their cultural standing reputation, and also making more money in the process, with the already made script provided by Shakespeare. Two individual directors directed the two motion pictures, Australian director Baz Luhrmann, who had…

“Romeo and Juliet” was written by William Shakespeare in 1595. During the years past, film directors have used a wide range of techniques to bring the story of the star crossed lovers to our modern stages. Franco Zeffrelli directed a version of the play in 1968 as well as Luhrmann in 97; both directors had…