ROMEO AND ROMEO AND JULIETJULIET

ESSENTIAL FACTSESSENTIAL FACTS● Written: 1593-

1596

● Firts published: 1599

● Firts mentioned: Francis Meres in 1598.

FRANCIS MERESFRANCIS MERES● He was a year

younger than Shakespeare.

● He published a work which has proven most valuable in dating Shakespeare's plays.

● He mentions many of his plays in the most laudatory terms.

UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL ● It is certainly the most famous play in the world, as it is constantly played, adapted for the cinema, and taught in schools on the five continents.

● An impossible love between two teenagers.

TIMELESSTIMELESS● Language has changed but the feelings Romeo expresses are still exactly the same.

● An absolute love.● Obstacles on their way to love: by society, by prejudice and intolerence,...

● Parents of one or of both of the lovers don't approve it.

FILM ADAPTATIONSFILM ADAPTATIONS● West Side Story (1961

)● Rome and Jewel (2008

)

A VAMPIRE VERSIONA VAMPIRE VERSION

TWILIGHT SAGA

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H&M(2005)

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