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Showing posts with label LO 3:B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LO 3:B. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Romeo and Juliet: the story

As I was trying to think of ways to engage Shakespeare creatively I decided to write a chapter on a section of play, kind of flesh it out.  I picked Romeo and Juliet as the play I wanted to write about - I know everybody makes fun of Romeo and Juliet because they're so young, but I wanted to give them some real feelings and emotions like I like to imagine they shared.  I set it right after Romeo killed Tybalt and is being forced to flee for his own life.  It's kind of long, but I hope you like it.  I've modernized it a little bit, as there are quotes from Keats (who wasn't alive at the time) and references to chocolate, but I think it gets the emotions I was trying to convey across. – sorry, I know it’s kind of cheesy.