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Romeo and Juliet - For a different audience.
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Kevin Quigley May 12, 2002 English Pd. 2 Mr. Burrall Romeo and Juliet: For a Different Audience William Shakespeare's story of doomed lovers, Romeo and Juliet is a story for all generations. The presentation of the story depends on how the audience will react to it. For instance, the audience from Shakespeare's time ranged from rich snobs to drunken groundlings. In my comic book version of his story, I used more modern words to help my audience; the people of today understand the story better. I adapted Shakespeare's original to fit today's audience by modernizing the vocabulary, taking out a few of the less exciting elements and by showing the emotions of the characters through illustrations. The original version of Romeo and Juliet is only different from my own version in one aspect; the presentation. In William Shakespeare's time, society was a lot different from the society we know today. The audience Shakespeare had to write...
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