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Summary: Friar Lawrence needs to be de-frocked
Review: The strengths of this famous play are the adorable and intelligent Juliet and Shakespeare's romantic language. The weaknesses are, for me, that the ending really sucks and that the unsuccessful plan of Friar Lawrence is just so stupid. His plan is to make a drugged zombie out of Juliet to convince her parents that she is dead. Would your priest, minister or rabbi suggest that?Friar Lawrence lacks courage and intelligence. He consents to marry the lovers without their parents' consent, but he doesn't have the backbone to tell the parents what he did. What in God's name is that about? And he comes up with an idiotic plan to deceive the parents. Where did he learn to be a religious guide to others? His stupidity and deceitfulness are matched only by his cowardice. The beauty of the language, and Juliet's wonderful character in the play, call for 5 stars. But the utter stupidity of the script and the horrible ending drag it down.
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Summary: I really poured my heart into this one.
Review: I hope that this play will delight readers for centuries and inspire many insipid modernizations and adaptations.
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Summary: Literary Terms in Romeo and Juliet
Review: The play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare uses countless amounts of Metaphors, Similes, Oxymorons, Puns, Imagery, and foreshadowing! Take metaphors and similes for example they play would die without them. They help just about every character express the depth of their feeling. Then comes Puns, this play thrives off Puns. Puns are used as a form of comic relief throughout out the play. Just like puns, Oxymorons help in expressing the confused feelings of the characters to the audience and other characters, and are essential to the flow of the play. Last and one of the most important types of figurative language in the play is Imagery. How could Romeo compare Juliet to all these wonderful things without imagery? Without Imagery, this play could not have been such a success to the original audience, because there were not many props to suggest the scene!
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Summary: Awesome Reference for anyone
Review: Willie Shakes wrote great- but he was very hard to read.This book is a must have reference for everyone- student or otherwise- who wishes to (or has to) read Romeo & Juliet.
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Summary: One of Will's best!
Review: Shakespeare wrote histories, tragedies and comedies. Each one of his plays fits into these genres except Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is not a historical drama, is far from a comedy and does not follow all the rules of a tragedy. This is an exception of Shakespeare and quite an exceptional drama it is. Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed lovers whose families are at war which prevents them from coming together. How far the couple will go to be together becomes the focus of the story. Romeo and Juliet hasn't got the depth or the emotion of Hamlet or Macbeth. It is a brilliant love story but not much more. It still possesses however some of his richest poetry. The opening and closing choruses are some of his most outstanding work and Romeo's wooing of Juliet is fabulously written. The Friar gets the best lines, Mercutio gets some of the worst babbling on about nothing. It is not as good as Shakespeare has written but it's still a fabulous book and up there with his best.
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Summary: A total insperation on all youth!
Review: The play truely inspired me to write sonnets.You know how it's so weird that Mr. Shakespeare related to us and our love life as if he to were living it.He explained life like no one could ever.The play was almost as if I were acctualy there when it happened. When my drama class did the play I was julte and as in the play it were in real life. you see my mom didn't allow me to have a boyfriend and Romeo was the guy who wanted me to be his love.Whatever the case my be he knew what we would feel and how we would relate to his play.
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Summary: Romeo And Juliet for the Hopeless Romantic
Review: Shakespeare is not for everyone. We all have different tastes and different opinions. For those of you who have not read this Shakespearian play, you are missing out on something amazing. This story of true love and tragic death can only be described as intense. For hundreds of years this has been Shakespeare's most amazing work. There is no way to explain what causes this story to be so good. Find out for yourself. Read it.
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Summary: Great romantic story.
Review: Though it is not one of my favourites, I recommend you to read it because it is a classic of all times.
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Summary: very romantic and very dramatic
Review: william shakspear was the most and the best poet in his time and if he was still a life he would still remain the best. His fiction is very romantic and very realistic. Generally, his books are very remarkable and very mysterious,
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Summary: Great, but not Will's best.
Review: While I am a HUGE Shakespeare fan, this is not his best. Allbeit - its great literature. I love the twists and the language, but it's often quite silly and there are too many questions about motivations, etc. For true tragedy, you should spend the extra effort on Othello, Hamlet, or Lear. It's worth the endeavor!
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