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Compare how Shakespeare and Luhramann engage the audience and set up the play’s theme in the opening of “Romeo and Juliet”
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Compare how Shakespeare and Luhramann engage the audience and set up the play's theme in the opening of "Romeo and Juliet" One of Shakespeare's most well acknowledged and famous plays Romeo and Juliet was a written in such a manner which would have been liked by a wide range of audience on the Elizabethan stages. Similarly Baz Luhrumann has attempted to recreate Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into a feature film with some touches of the 21st century to suit the modern audiences today worldwide. Throught the main themes and the prologue of the play, Shakespeare has tried to hold the audiences interest. The prologue has played a very important and central point of the whole play. Shakespeare set the scene in 'fair Verona' because of the simple reason that he didn't want to offend the British audience and the Queen, as the characters are shown as very violent and short tempered. This...
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