Romeo and Juliet are in but their families are bitter enemies. Set in medieval Verona, a place of sword fights, secrets and magic potions, their tragic love story plays out to a desperate end. Adapted by Anna Claybourne. Формат издания: 13,5 см х 20 см.

ISBN: 978-0-7460-6933-2
Издательство: Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Romeo and Juliet, continuing the tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity, tells the story of two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare`s most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

ISBN: 978-5-521-00160-6
Издательство: Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Why is Shakespeare?s Antony and Cleopatra so much neglected compared to Romeo and Juliet? If one looks at the plot, one can find an abundance of similarities, among which the most important is the climax of both dramas, i.e. the suicides the main characters commit for each other. Yet, the reception of the two works is rather different. While the love of Romeo and Juliet is still a synonym for eternal love, the true story of Antony and Cleopatra did not manage to attract the attention it could have deserved. This book is a comparison of the two tragedies that endeavours to find the reasons for the success of Romeo and Juliet and the controversial welcome of Antony and Cleopatra. The analysis is made through different aspects of the two...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-0307-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Romeo and Juliet" is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings. The film stars Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as Juliet. The New York Times selected the film as one of the "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made," calling it "a lavish production" which "is extremely well-produced and acted." Producer Irving Thalberg pushed MGM for five years to make a Romeo and Juliet, in the face of the studio's opposition: which stemmed from Louis B. Mayer's belief that the masses considered the Bard over their heads, and from the austerity forced on the studios by the depression. It was only when Jack Warner announced his...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-7544-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet and Macbeth, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Shakespeare...

ISBN: 978-6-1317-3606-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The story about Romeo and Juliet, in one form or another, was often told in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but Shakespear`s source was an English poem published in 1562, called `The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet`. It was written at a timewhen the brief vogue for sonnet-writing was at its height. The tragedy of `Romeo and Juliet` was first produced about 1595. From the first it was popular.

ISBN: 5-8168-0043-4
Издательство: Химера
Дата выхода: январь 2001

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play "Romeo and Juliet". The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design; it was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture. Sir Laurence Olivier spoke the film's prologue and epilogue and reportedly dubbed the voice of the Italian actor playing Lord Montague, but was never credited in the film. The story begins in the town’s Market Square, where a small fracas begins between men of both houses, until Benvolio, a cousin of the Montagues, attempts to stop it. The frenzied fighting continues until...

ISBN: 978-6-1318-8087-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The researcher's present work, Romeo and Juliet in the light of Eastern folk-tales is a comparative study of Shekespear's play---Romeo and Juliet and the eastern folk-tales Hir Ranhja, Sassi Punnu and Sohni Mahinwal. The research interprets that there is relationship between these stories in their style and structure. In this thesis dialectical relations among character, language and action are studied. The researcher has gone to a great deal of pains in collecting and putting together the material for his work. Although the work is on limited scale yet, it is a valuable addition in the field of folk-tales and perhaps the first work on its type. It is hoped that this research will be a gate way of those who want to work on eastern and...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-2408-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011