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Give a detailed analysis of how the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet stimulates dramatic expectation in addition to entertaining and informing the audience
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Sandy Barr 10H Give a detailed analysis of how the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet stimulates dramatic expectation in addition to entertaining and informing the audience The opening scene of Romeo & Juliet is absolutely essential to the rest of the play for several different reasons. Not only does it draw the audience in with its gross and witty humour, 'Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh', but it also acts to inform the audience of the background to the play, 'I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee'. All of this combines to stimulate dramatic expectation, the building up of the audience anticipation to see what happens next. In some ways this is a taster for the audience for what is to happen next. In the opening part of the scene, we see two...
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