How would you direct Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet - page 1
Keywords: Romeo & Juliet, Romeo, Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1, directions
By abdul on 20/11/2006 17:23:28
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
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Romeo & Juliet
How would you direct Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet for a student and parent audience in your school hall?
“Romeo and Juliet” is a classical Shakespearian drama which involves the diversion of plot into acts and scenes. Within that, most of the verse is written in rhyming couplets. It is also an excellent tragic drama which has tone of passionate, romantic, intense, rhapsodic, and violent; provoking the themes of the forcefulness of love, love as a cause of violence, the unavoidability of fate and the individual versus society.
As the play start a brawl breaks out between the servants of the two feuding families which make the ruler of the city decree death for any individual who disturbs the peace of the city in the future. During the next scenes Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet, who is a thirteen years old Capulet girl, and they start meeting secretly as there is feud between the both families. Later on in the play they marry each other secretly before Romeo get enforced in a fight with Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and kill him. Therefore Romeo was banished. Friar Lawrence, the vicar who managed their marriage, tries to help Romeo and he puts a plan where Juliet is going to pretend dying and send her to Romeo after finishing her funeral, but unfortunately the message which was received by Romeo was wrong where he was told that Juliet has committed suicide and so Romeo buys a very powerful poison and goes back to the city where he commit suicide next to Juliet, who has also committed suicide after seeing Romeo dead.
Act3 Scene1 is seen as a crucial and important turn point in the play of Romeo and Juliet as a whole. It is at this point where things start to go tragic and badly resulting in the catastrophe where as prior to this scene the play was seen as a comedy drama. Act3 Scene1 is also a point where the transition of the romance theme to the tragedy theme commences. The tragedy starts with the death of Mercutio, who represents the light hearted character, and then tragedy continues as Romeo gets banished from the city. The high pace plot of this scene also play a part in making it complicated for the characters to realise what is happening.
The family feud was the whole reason for the tragedy and
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