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In the first Act of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare interests his audience by using a number of dramatic techniques and explores universal themes of love which is particularly relevant to the people of his day (Elizabethan) and the modern day today.
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In the first Act of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare interests his audience in the eponymous protagonists during the first Act of Romeo and Juliet In the first Act of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare interests his audience by using a number of dramatic techniques and explores universal themes of love which is particularly relevant to the people of his day (Elizabethan) and the modern day today. Before the play gets started Shakespeare begins with a prologue that is basically in the form of a sonnet. A prologue is basically an introduction to a play or a book, in this case a play. The prologue would help the Elizabethan audience to understand and get a perspective of the background of Shakespeare's play how he explores the many themes especially the universal themes of love involved in this tragedy. The prologue basically explains how two families of the same nobility still bare a grudge over an...
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