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reading Romeo and Juliet. Okay, so the place called Romeo and Juliet, right? Well, not quite. It's actually called the most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It might help to know that even if you've never read or seen it, you sort of know the story already. It's about two teenagers who see one another across a room at a party one night, fall completely in love at first sight and then won't let anything. Not their families, not their friends. Not all the pressures in the world get in the way of their being together. And even though the love must conquer all story seems pretty old. You see it everywhere in Hollywood romance stories or in TV shows, or even made fun of in cartoons. Nobody has made the story of finding love and then fighting for it, fresher or more heartbreaking or more beautiful than William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was about 30 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. Unlike most adults, he remembered what it was like to be in your teens and caught up in emotions and desires that make you feel like they're controlling you rather than you controlling them. He knew how scary and exciting. That could be so. His play is scary and exciting and funny and violent and sad all at the same time. Now, not sat in a hopeless way, but in a way that makes you feel like you've really gone through something serious and learn something from it. This is one of Shakespeare's most famous place. Well, guess what? Shakespeare ripped off the story from an English poem that was itself ripped off from a French story that was ripped off from an Italian one. Writers did that all the time back then still dio, but back then, nobody got sued. What Shakespeare did, though, was make the story better than anybody else had. He condensed it. So all the scenes take place in four days rather than in a few months, which makes the plot happen much faster and more intensely. He made it sadder, and he gave it more interesting and complicated characters. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, which means that it's a play about good people we care about who end up suffering a disastrous end, and they suffer. Sometimes they die is in this play, partially because of fate, because the world is unfair or even cruel, and partly because of a flaw in themselves. The sadness of this play comes from watching how fate and the characters flaws combine in ways we hate to see. The interest of the story comes from finding out how the characters deal with the obstacles in their way and if they end up getting what they want or not. Romeo and Juliet is about two people who fall in love and realize that they can't live without each other. But given that their families air in a violent feud, they can't love openly or Mary openly. There's your conflict, and every scene in the play gets its juice. It's tension and its interest from that essential conflict. Shakespeare being Shakespeare, added all kinds of other stuff to the play, like having another man who also wanted to marry Juliet in order to jack up the tension even more and adding comic relief from Juliet's nurse to relax the tension every once in a while. Even so, you feel the main conflict. That's why this play has lasted so long and why we still read it now. But a lot of people have a hard time reading this kind of beautiful language. So what we recommend you dio, at the very least is read it aloud so you can see the play while it's happening or even better, go and see the play at one of your local theaters. Then you will really see Romeo and Juliet the way Shakespeare intended you to. So enough talk with that being said, Let's crack open the play and start reading. This is the most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
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