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How effective is the opening scene to Baz Lurhman’s Romeo and Juliet? Compare this with the play script and refer to dramatic devices and character.  

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How effective is the opening scene to Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet? Compare this with the play script and refer to dramatic devices and character. The play Romeo and Juliet is set in the Italian city of Verona, it is about a blood feud between two families called the Montague's and the capulet's. Two people from the Montagues and Capulets fall in love and only when they die will the fighting between the two families come to an end. The opening scene to Romeo and Juliet is set in a public place in Verona it starts with two servants of the Capulet family armed with swords. They are ready to fight with anybody from the house of Montague. Soon afterward two servants of the Montague household enter and they begin to fight. The fight temporarily ends when Benvolio appears and beats down their swords. After this Tybalt a noble member of the...

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