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Charybdis aided her father Poseidon in his feud with her paternal uncle Zeus and, as such, helped him engulf lands and islands in water. Zeus, angry over the land she stole from him, sent her to the bottom of the sea with a thunderbolt; from the sea bed, she drank the water from the sea thrice a day, creating whirlpools.
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus.
Tanna (2015), the depiction of a Romeo and Juliet-like story based on an actual marriage dispute, [89] is set on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. [90] The 2017 TV series Still Star-Crossed includes brief scenes based on the original play but focuses primarily on the families after the deaths of the two main characters.
Classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet storyline with Shakespeare play dialogue. However the play is set in modern-day with Romeo arriving on stage riding a motorcycle in blue jeans and sunglasses. The Montague family is all white and the Capulet family all black adding a new dimension of racial conflict between the two families.
But even if Romeo & Juliet were the most relatable play in the world, the notion of getting teens and twenty-somethings to pack the house for iambic pentameter feels like an uphill battle. That ...
Will presents Romeo and Juliet (which had the working title Romeo and Julian), a work-in-progress, to his family in Stratford, but they are largely unimpressed. Back in London, Robert Greene forces Will to temporarily house Greene's lovesick nephew, Florian, who has become infatuated with a woman named Rosalyn. Florian is instantly smitten by ...
The plays, featuring headstrong people whose decisions bring far different consequences, will run this summer on the company's outdoor garden stage.
The first season followed this model perfectly, with broadcasts in 1978 on 3 December (Romeo & Juliet), 10 December (King Richard the Second) and 17 December (Measure for Measure), and in 1979 on 11 February (As You Like It), 18 February (Julius Caesar) and 25 February (The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight).