Word: juliet
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After I finished my other two term papers on light and dark imagery in "Romeo and Juliet." I gave all three to Robert N. Watson, assistant professor of English. The following is the finished product, with both excerpts from the papers and Watson's comments...
...Romeo and Juliet" Shakespeare has written a play that is crowded with images. So crowded in fact that the play's movements happen swiftly. The Prologue warns us that the lovers are star-cross'd, misadventur'd, and death mark...
...secret of successfully translating opera from stage to screen lies in respecting the musical source but exploit ing the film medium's restless, inquiring mobility. As both a film maker (Romeo and Juliet, The Champ, Endless Love and an experienced opera director, Zeffirelli understands both genres. In Soprano Teresa Stratas (Violetta) and Tenor Placido Domingo (Alfredo), he has chosen two exceptionally convincing singing actors. But film also demands motion, sweep and scope, so at intense moments the camera breaks free of its traditional front-row-center moorings and begins to roam. As counterpoint to Alfredo's second...
...production, work for a simple and well-precedented reason--lack of interference. In the last year or so the BSC has done a fair amount of experimenting with the different ways a director can mangle a script in the interests of originally; their director's Romeo and Juliet was set mysteriously and superfluously in modern-day Belfast, and Bill Coe's Memlet offered the truly creative line-reading "To be, or not?... To be!" But now the fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues...
Were Meryl Streep, 33, to do a screen version of Romeo and Juliet, with, say, Robert De Niro, their twinned compulsion to "get into" the hearts of their roles might take them so far that an undertaker would have to be included in the closing credits. So finicky is Streep about her profession that when it came time to dub the French sound track for her Polish-born character in Sophie's Choice, she just had to try to provide that je ne sais quoi herself. "I had to audition to show that I could speak the language well...