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Tom Holland’s eagerly anticipated Shakespeare debut in Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo & Juliet production has received mixed reviews from critics following opening night at the Duke of York’s theatre ...
'Sunset Boulevard' review: Nicole Scherzinger is transcendent in bold new revival Juliet (Rachel Zegler, left) and Romeo (Kit Connor) profess their love for each other in the flowery balcony scene.
You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas ...
Romeo and Juliet (Italian: Giulietta e Romeo) is a 1954 film adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name.It is directed and written for the screen by Renato Castellani, and stars Laurence Harvey as Romeo and newcomer Susan Shentall as Juliet, with Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns, Bill Travers, Sebastian Cabot, Enzo Fiermonte and John Gielgud.
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello and 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 1567.
But this is Romeo + Juliet (Sam Gold’s version): a glittering, queer, Gen Z take on Shakespeare’s play that is wonderfully wild, visually stunning, and unabashedly horny.
Tony Howard concludes that "we inherit so many of our images of romance, generational discord and social hatred from the play that it is impossible to list all its cinematic reincarnations", [70] citing works as disparate as the Polish 1937 Romeo i Julieta, the Swiss 1941 A Village Romeo and Juliet , the French 1949 Les amants de Vérone and ...
The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is an English language narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. [1] It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived from an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello.