For this Adaptation Analysis, I dug into the works of one of my favorite authors of all time. I am talking about the man, the genius, the legend: Mr. William Shakespeare! Although there are many upon many adaptations of the Bard’s plays, the one that struck me as the one that really needed to be analyzed is the archetypal love story — that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, Romeo & Juliet. This play was written early on in the Bard’s career and still remains, along with Hamlet, the most performed play of all time. In this analysis I will be comparing the original stage play to the 1996 feature length motion picture modernization directed by Baz Luhrmann. I will be analyzing three aspects of it: 1) the story, 2) the characters, and 3) the presentation.
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