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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...
This use of dark and light in association with loves permits Shakespeare to promote the romance of Romeo and Juliet to cosmic proportions. The lovers, as the Prologue informs us, are star-crossed. Juliet being referred to by her paramour as a "sun." The figures of Romeo and Juliet are like "Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light...
Although it is vital to understand the basic attitude that Elizabethan audiences brought to any astronomical references, and particularly to "Romeo and Juliet" where the idea of divine providence pervades the play, the imagery of celestial bodies in "Romeo and Juliet" goes far beyond the basic concepts of "destiny...
...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...