Shakespeare verses Luhrmann essays

Shakespeare verses Luhrmann essays In Shakespeares original text, there is humour created by serving men to lower tension from the previous scene. Sampson, Gregory, Anthony and Capulet welcomes his guests with humour Ladies that have their toes unplaged with corns will walk about with you. In the text Capulet comes across as a real lady charmer who gets away with flirting with any lady. A whispering tale in a fair ladies ear.... Capulets lines are very descriptive this helps to create the atmosphere Come musicians play this tells the audience that musicians are there . A hall shows that the party is being held in a hall. Capulet talks of quenching the fire ,he also says that the room is too hot. All of this sets the scene, a lot of Shakespeares work had to contain word imagery as the props and the stage designs were primitive. In the text Capulet doesnt dance, I know this because he says... Nay sit , good cousin Capulet, for you and I are past our dancing days. More humorous conversation is had between Capulet and second Capulet . Then we see Romeo for the time, enquiring about Juliet from a Juliet is dancing with Tybalt who is dressed as a knight (This indicates Juliet and Tybalts closeness as relatives, this is not brought across in the Romeo then says his lines on how Juliet doth teach the torches to burn bright This is like saying she shines brighter than everything , and that It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night this means Juliet makes the blackness of night beautiful. Beauty to rich for use, for earth to dear... could this be a premonition of how Juliet will end up dead. because she is too precious for the world? She is described as a snowy dove among crows this tells the audience how radiant she looks and that c...