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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.
Romeo and Juliet (Spanish: Romeo y Julieta) is a 1943 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, María Elena Marqués and Ángel Garasa. [1] It is loosely based on William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The film's dialogue is in verse.
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.
Romeo y Julieta can refer to: The Spanish name for the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo y Julieta, an Argenti based on the play; Romeo y Julieta (cigar), two brands of Cuban and Dominican cigars; Romeo y Julieta (cigarette), a brand of Cuban cigarettes; Romeo and Juliet, a Mexican film
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 earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes.The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3]
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, in which the composer is always pleasing, though seldom impressive, might be described as the powerful drama of Romeo and Juliet reduced to the proportions of an eclogue for Juliet and Romeo. One remembers the work as a series of very pretty duets, varied by a sparkling waltz air for Juliet, in which Madame Patti ...
In the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet, the actor who played Benvolio was Dash Mihok. In the 2001 French musical Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour, the role was originated by Grégori Baquet. In the 2013 version of Romeo and Juliet, the actor who played Benvolio was Kodi Smit-McPhee. Benvolio gets a larger supporting role as he ...