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Discuss the various perceptions of love in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet - Then choose two contrasting examples from scenes you have discussed and explain how you would stage them to show these contrasts.
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Chandni Motala 10c Discuss the various perceptions of love in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Then choose two contrasting examples from scenes you have discussed and explain how you would stage them to show these contrasts. William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in 1595. When it was written, Shakespeare was quite young, 31, already five years into his career. Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne at the time, and many of the characteristics of Elizabethan lifestyle are included within the play. In the Elizabethan times, it was not unusual for people to get married and have children young. In the play Lady Capulet says, "By my count, I was your mother much upon these years," to Juliet, who appears to be about 12 years old. She is telling Juliet that she was already a mother at Juliet's age, implying she should be getting ready to marry now. Women were also not...
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