Essay

”About my favourite Shakespearean play and one of its

film versions and how it compares to the actual play.”

National University of Theatre and

Film “I.L. Caragiale

2018
William Shakespeare, also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called England's
national poet and considered the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare's works are
known throughout the world. Occupies a position unique in world literature. Other
poets, such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens.
William Shakespeare's early plays were written in the conventional style of the day, with
elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases that didn't always align naturally with the
story's plot or characters. However, Shakespeare was very innovative, adapting the
traditional style to his own purposes and creating a freer flow of words.

I have read many Shakespeare plays, but Romeo and Juliet are the favorite
play.Comparison between "Romeo and Juliet" theater and "Romeo plus Juliet" modern
movie.

"Romeo and Juliet"

Romeo and Juliet, played
by William Shakespeare,
written about 1594-96
and first published in an
unuthorized quarto in
1597. Shakespeare sets
the scene in Verona, Italy.
In the tragic romance,
Romeo and Juliet, William
Shakespeare shows an
example of how teenage
love can embrace the
feelings of the young but
also cause destruction,
not only in their lives but
also in the lives of people
around them. This story
shows how others
opinions and thoughts can affect people close to them. Juliet and Romeo meet and fall
instantly in love at a masked ball of the Capulets, and they profess their love when
Romeo, unwilling to leave, climbs the wall into the orchard garden of her family’s house
and finds her alone at her window. Because their well-to-do families are enemies, the
two are married secretly by Friar Laurence. The characters of Romeo and Juliet were
depicted in literature, music, dance, and theater. The appeal of the young hero and his
heroine-whose families, the Montagues and the Capulets, respectively, have implacable
enemies-are such that they have become, in popular imagination, the representative
type of star-crossed lovers.

"Romeo + Juliet” movie

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (shortened
to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romantic
drama film directed, co-produced, and co-written
by Baz Luhrmann. The film stars Leonardo
DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles of
Romeo and Juliet.While it retains the original
Shakespearean dialogue, the film represents the
Montagues and the Capulets as warring mafia
empires (with legitimate business fronts) during
1990s America, and swords are replaced with
guns (with brand names such as "Dagger" and
"Sword"). Some characters' names are also
changed. Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and
Lady Capulet are given first names (in the
original, their first names are never mentioned);
Friar Laurence becomes Father Laurence, and
Prince Escalus is renamed Captain Prince. The
adaptation eliminates the character of Friar John,
and some characters change families—in the
original, Gregory and Sampson are Capulets, but in the film, they are Montagues
(Abram, as Abra, and Petruchio, conversely, are shifted from the Montague to the
Capulet family). In addition, a few plot details are shifted, most notably toward the
ending.