1. QUESTIONS
1. Who was the ruler when Shakespeare first came to London? Who were her parents? Was she a good queen?
1. Who was the ruler when Shakespeare first came to London? Who were her parents? Was she a good queen?
The ruler was Elizabeth I, she was the Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn , was executed three years after her birth. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen or Good Queen Bess, she was a very good queen.
2. Who was Christopher Marlowe? Which kind of relationship did he have with Shakespeare? How did he die? What might have been suspicious circumstances surrounding his death?
Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death.
Shakespeare was indeed very influenced by Marlowe in his early work as can be seen in the re-using of Marlowe themes. Marlowe was murdered in May 1593. Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write under the assumed name of William Shakespeare.
2. COMMENT ON THE MAIN DIFFERENCES.
- In the film Romeo takes drugs to simulate the dreams on the true based story.
- Juliet commits suicide with Romeo's gun.
- In the death scene, she wakes as Romeo is drinking the poison, and he dies in her arms.
- Scenes are deleted, like Romeo's killing of Paris.
- They first see each other through a fish tank.
- They’re love always relates with the water.
- Mercutio is different that people imagine.
Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death.
Shakespeare was indeed very influenced by Marlowe in his early work as can be seen in the re-using of Marlowe themes. Marlowe was murdered in May 1593. Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write under the assumed name of William Shakespeare.
2. COMMENT ON THE MAIN DIFFERENCES.
- In the film Romeo takes drugs to simulate the dreams on the true based story.
- Juliet commits suicide with Romeo's gun.
- In the death scene, she wakes as Romeo is drinking the poison, and he dies in her arms.
- Scenes are deleted, like Romeo's killing of Paris.
- They first see each other through a fish tank.
- They’re love always relates with the water.
- Mercutio is different that people imagine.
3. Choose ONE of these topics and analyze its role within the play:
- IMAGERY: there are lots of metaphors and images in the film: WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station fights...), DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?
- IMAGERY: there are lots of metaphors and images in the film: WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station fights...), DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?
They all mean that they’re love is passionate, romantic, exciting, moving… For me the water symbolizes like a very happy and exciting love moment, where all they’re problems go away and they just really need each other, fire is a moment when they’re relationship is much more passionate but at the same time more dangerous for the couple, the night and the moon are the most romantic scenes of the play in the film, where also in some scenes appears all the other elements (water, fire) that complete they’re love.
