HUMN-303 Introduction to Humanities Chamberlain University College of Nursing Stephen F. Oyer-Owens

1 Week 4 Assignment: Essay – Play Analysis HUMN -303 Introduction to Humanities Chamberlain University College of Nursing Stephen F. Oyer-Owens ROMEO AND JULIET 2 Romeo and Juliet The play or performance that I have decided to analyze in this week paper is Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are one of the world most known written tragedies about two young teenagers who fall in love and are driven to death because of their family’s feud. Written by William Shakespeare, it has been stated that Shakespeare must have written the play between 1591 and 1596 (Goff, 2004). Shakespe are wrote this for people who are in relationships to appreciate their companion. All the time we hear people tell us how much problems they face in a relationship that drives them away from their partner and ends the relationship. But this was written to show that when two people are really in love and want to be together but can not what it can drive them to do. In this play, the lighting of the scenery is very dim. You look at the stage and you see that the tried to recreate the best they could in every scene that they had. With most of the play being around Juliet house they had it to where it was just a background of a painting and Romeo who is outside of Juliet room right down near her balcony talking to each other describing their love for each other. The costumes that they are wearing does not seem like something that would have been worn in the 16 centuries but it not too far from what was worn in the original play. One thing that was notice about the characters that revises the written version of th e play was Juliet being a colored woman. This was just surprising a little because most of the time way back in school, watching Romeo and Juliet in different plays you would always see that it was two young Caucasians who played the role of Romeo and Juliet. In the beginning of the play the tone is comic but as you watch deeper and deeper into the performance it goes from being that to hopeless and sorrowful. The mood that is created