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How does Shakespeare introduce dramatic tension and some of the key themes in Romeo and Juliet? During the following essay I am going to discuss how Shakespeare uses dramatic tension throughout the prologue and Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet. In the prologue Shakespeare introduces dramatic tension straight away by breaking the established rules of the sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-lined poem from a lover to his beloved and was normally concerned with the subject of love. Instead, Shakespeare talks of love, feuding and death, the main themes of this play. An Elizabethan audience would have been likely to recognize these changes straightaway whereas a modern audience probably wouldn't because we are exposed to a wider variety of poetic forms and less likely to recognize one individually. However the subject matter of the sonnet would still increase tension for a modern audience. Shakespeare also tells you the whole story, which...

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