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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is may be the first time I've read this play after high school. Let me first say that the writing is superb! However, I now see this play as more of a dark comedy vs. a tragedy because...these kids (and the adults TBH) are truly dumb. I mean, this all takes place within 4 days...and Romeo was whining about Rosaline the whole first act because she wouldn't acknowledge him or give him any (literally, smart girl). Then he just happens to see Juliet at a party (one he went to solely to spy on Rosaline) and they fall in love at first sight? I really can not and I'm never having kids, haha.
If you want a good beginner play to get into Shakespeare, just read Hamlet or Macbeth.
I remembered so much from school which really surprised me. Really enjoyed it.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“O son, the night before thy wedding day
Hath Death lain with thy wife. See, there she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter He hath wedded. I will die
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.”
Capulet
This year is the ten-year mark of my properly starting to learn English, which also means it’s high time I read more Shakespeare than a sonnet or two.
Not having read a Shakesplay (copywriting services for hire!) since high school, I was worried I would struggle as much with the language as I did back then. And you know what, I am so proud to say that I could read it at a normal pace without trouble!
Not only that, but I was amazed by the simplicity of the dialogue, contrasted by the complexity of its nature. In fact, Shakespeare is funny. These are teenagers joking about with one another and kids falling in love, and all that is strikingly obvious yet masked in Shakespeare’s beauteous contrastive prose. Light and dark, good and evil, all greying out into one when death strikes for a lack of life, after an abundance of it.
(My 5-star review is very much based on the thrill I feel after finishing this piece of poetic perfection and may be slightly over the top given the DRAMATICALLY sudden romance between Romeo and Juliet (which is just superdaft).)
Hath Death lain with thy wife. See, there she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter He hath wedded. I will die
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.”
Capulet
This year is the ten-year mark of my properly starting to learn English, which also means it’s high time I read more Shakespeare than a sonnet or two.
Not having read a Shakesplay (copywriting services for hire!) since high school, I was worried I would struggle as much with the language as I did back then. And you know what, I am so proud to say that I could read it at a normal pace without trouble!
Not only that, but I was amazed by the simplicity of the dialogue, contrasted by the complexity of its nature. In fact, Shakespeare is funny. These are teenagers joking about with one another and kids falling in love, and all that is strikingly obvious yet masked in Shakespeare’s beauteous contrastive prose. Light and dark, good and evil, all greying out into one when death strikes for a lack of life, after an abundance of it.
(My 5-star review is very much based on the thrill I feel after finishing this piece of poetic perfection and may be slightly over the top given the DRAMATICALLY sudden romance between Romeo and Juliet (which is just superdaft).)
A story about a young man/older teen trying to have a relationship with a minor girl resulting in the deaths of four innocent people.