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Compare And Contrast The Presentation Of Two Film Versions Of The Prologue To Romeo And Juliet. How Do The Different Directors Interpret This Scene?
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Compare And Contrast The Presentation Of Two Film Versions Of The Prologue To Romeo And Juliet. How Do The Different Directors Interpret This Scene? I have been scrutinizing Baz Luhrmann and Franco Zeffirelli's unique styles of interpreting Shakespeare's, late 1590 's, play prologue: Romeo and Juliet. (To be truthful when I first found out I was going to be studying Romeo and Juliet, I thought I was about to pull my hair out! Image having to watch two Shakespeare play prologues, let alone writing an essay comparing it! Surely you would die of boredom? Wouldn't you?) A prologue is commonly known as a foreword of an introductory material of prose work, which in this case is a play. Shakespeare wrote his prologue as an Iambic pentameter sonnet (a form that he is renound for). To give his audience a sneak preview of what 'the two hours' traffick of our stage...' would...
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