Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and juliet: from play to big screen By: Scott Romeo and Juliet: From Play to Big Screen In 1596, William Shakespeare published the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. The origins of this story are uncertain but Shakespeare’s chief source for his adoption of the story was from “…The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a poem by Arthur Brooke (1562). He also knew the story from Palace of Pleasure, by William …showed first 75 words of 1850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1850 total…Works Cited Bloom, Harold. Bloom’s Reviews: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998. Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Joseph A. Porter. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1997 Evans, Robert O. The Osier Cage. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1966. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. Twentieth Century Fox, 1996. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. John E. Hankins. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1969.