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Compare interpretations of character in a film version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with your own views after you have studied the text.
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Shakespeare Language and Literature Unit Task: Compare interpretations of character in a film version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with your own views after you have studied the text. In my essay I will explore character interpretation of Baz Luhrmanns' modern adaption of the playwright "Romeo + Juliet" by William Shakespeare. Just from the title the modernisation of the play can be given away quite successfully, with the "+" sign in between the Romeo and Juliet; this indicates that the title is a "trendy" adoption of its definition, a slang recognition, which teenagers [the target audience] use a lot. To begin with the prologue in the film shows immediately that the story is modernised and everything has changed to today's way of life [for the benefit of younger audiences]. The prologue begins with a TV screen at a distance with a the TV screen beginning fuzzy without a signal and then picks up...
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