Wednesday, April 29, 2020
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You mentioned in an earlier series of videos that this play is also about the adults who fail the young people and I really see that here. With Juliet's father being cruel and the maid being really unhelpful, Friar Lawrence trying but screwing things up, I do wonder that all of this could have been avoided if Romeo and Juliet just had adults they could speak to. Often young people do dumb things when they feel alone and there is no one wiser to talk to for advice.
ReplyDeleteAlso about how Shakespeare uses words to express set design instead of actual sets, his plays probably made for great radio shows then.
-Deborah Majowka
There are a lot of great Shakespeare radio dramas!
DeleteThe way Shakespeare asks the audience to imagine things like sets is something I am fascinated by because it makes the audience into imaginative participants in a more active way than movies do.
I’m always fascinated by how directors/writers depict the interactions between the nobility and the townspeople, in film and in plays. In NYC I think a lot about how our lives intersect with the homeless community and it’s upsetting that whenever our economy is facing any strife, like this pandemic, nobody bats an eye for the homeless population. Throughout history, philosophes, like Rousseau, were consumed in navigating the “Fatherless World” (a term coined throughout the Enlightenment, as many philosophes started to distance themselves from religious study in place for scientific study). My point: while we’re so consumed with our own spiritual ideals (Insert Goop Caption here), there are literally “Fatherless” communities dying or hardly getting by because of the massive wealth inequality. I thought the exchange between the Apothecary and Romeo was brilliant because it highlighted their joint strife with the damned world they’re both struggling to survive in. The way they describe the exchange of gold and poison also underscores the cracks in simulation, which they’re both aware of, given the roles each of them play.
ReplyDeleteAgreed and its also interseting that Shakespeare was a regular guy doing plays for commoners and kings making this pointing out of the class divide extra important!
DeleteNow that I understand the writing of Romeo and Juliet, I will say I enjoyed it more. I think the poetry was beautifully composed. I’ve been convinced that Romeo and Juliet are madly in love and they deserved to be together. Whether it be alive or dead. If one survived without the other, the other would’ve probably died from a widows heart lol.
ReplyDeleteYeah she is pretty impressive — one of my favorites actually!
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