Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Form: Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet"

Because William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is largely about discourse, Downing argues that Baz Luhrmann's rendering of it captures subtleties of Shakespeare's script better than more mystified renditions of Romeo and Juliet's love. The mystified discourse that Sha...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Literature film quarterly 2000-01, Vol.28 (2), p.125-131
1. Verfasser:	Downing, Crystal
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	British & Irish literature Drama English literature Film adaptations Film criticism Italian literature Language Literary criticism Luhrmann, Baz Modernist art Motion picture criticism Motion picture directors & producers Movies Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) Poetry Rorty, Richard Semiotic signs Shakespeare plays Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Subjectivity Television Theater Trade names
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Zusammenfassung:	Because William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is largely about discourse, Downing argues that Baz Luhrmann's rendering of it captures subtleties of Shakespeare's script better than more mystified renditions of Romeo and Juliet's love. The mystified discourse that Shakespeare exposes to ridicule is the Petrarchan poetry so popular in his own day.
ISSN:	0090-4260 2573-7597