Romeo and Juliet
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SHAKESPEARE COURSEWORK "ROMEO AND JULIET" A discussion of the character of Juliet as a woman/girl of her time and an analysis of what extent her character changes and develops throughout the play, and why this is so. How would you act Juliet or direct the actor playing the part so that these ideas were clear to a modern day audience? William Shakespeare wrote and set the play "Romeo and Juliet" in the fifteenth century, a time where society and families were run very differently how they are today. In those times, young girls of Juliet's age (about fourteen) would be married off to men of their parents choice, usually someone that the family respected and got along well with. It was quite unheard of for a young girl or boy to refuse to marry the person of their parents' choice, this would disgrace the family. Of course, this made young people's choices...

