Romeo and Julia

Romeo and Julia is the title 1595 published drama of William Shakespeare, which describes the love of two young people, who belong to disliked families. In the drama Shakespeare processes the material of one Italian novella and the 1562by Arthur Brookes of written poem “The Tragicall Historye OF Romeus and Juliet”.

action

the piece plays in the Italian city Verona and acts of the disliked families of the Montagues and Capulets. Romeo is son of the Montagues, Julia the daughter of the Capulets. The two meet on a Maskenball in the house of Julias parents and fall in loveitself at first sight into one another. Already on the next day Romeo goes to the friendly Pater Lorenzo, in order to ask it to accomplish the wedding. In hope to reconcile with it the families Lorenzo agrees. Shortly thereafter a controversy develops between Mercutio, Romeos bestFriend, and Tybalt from the house of the Capulets. It comes to a duel, in whose consequence Mercutio is deadly wounded. The present Romeo wants this throats. Thus it comes to the fight between Romeo and Tybalt, a cousin of Julia. Romeo kills Tybalt and becomes thereforefrom the prince from Verona banishes. Before it flees into banishing, it spends however its wedding night with Julia. Hardly their husband left, opens it in the early morning its parents to it that it is to marry a young count named Paris. Julia is frightened andPater Lorenzo asks for assistance. This develops a daring plan. It is to take a beta exercise drink to itself, which shifts it into a death-similar condition. Thus it could escape from the wedding. Julia agrees. By a unfortunate coincidence Romeo gets the letter, it from thisFlat in knowledge to set is not. When he hears of Julias death, he despaired. It provides poison and goes then to the Gruft of the Capulets. There it kills itself beside the Julia just awaking. When this recognizes its dead loving beside itself, erstichtit itself. Over the corpses of their children disliked parents reconcile themselves.

This drama originated in to about 1595/96 and is considered as the first dear tragedy of the English literature. In addition is it to today one of the most successful pieces of William Shakespeare. That is on the one hand because of the unusual beautythe text, in addition, at the moving fate of the two Protagonisten. “Star crossed lovers”, over whose dark clouds hang history from the outset, are identification figures for our picture of the ideal love.

Rezeption

Vertonungen

Romeo and Julia became several times and. A.冯Vincenzo ・ Bellini， 查尔斯Gounod， 丹尼尔Steibelt， Heinrich Sutermeister， 鲍里斯Blacher und 帕斯卡Dusapin vertont。 Also as ballet (composes from Sergej Prokofjew) the material on the stages of the concert hall became domestic. In the range of the musical is above all Leonard of amber west simmers story (to the Romeo and Julia the collecting main supplied) famous, lately becomes however also Gerard Presgurvics treatment as musical Romeo&Julia by numerous productions in different European countries ever more well-known. With modern music here the history of Romeo becomes andJulia impressively represented.Hector Berlioz wrote a dramatic symphony, Carl Maria von Weber a choir and a Pjotr Tschaikowski a Fantasieouverture to Shakespeares drama.

filmings

Shakespeares play one filmed several marks:

• Romeo and Julia of George Cukor, the USA 1936
• Romeo andJulia of Renato Castellani, Italy 1954
• Romeo and Julia of Franco Zeffirelli, Italy/Great Britain 1968 with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting
• William Shakespeares Romeo & Julia of Baz Luhrmann, the USA 1996 with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
• Shakespeare in Love, USA/Great Britain 1998, also Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow treats the emergence of Romeo and Julia
• Romeo must from Andrzej the Bartkowiak, the USA 2000 with jet left and Aaliyah

Romeo and Julia as literary motive

• Gottfried of cellar history Romeo and Julia on the Dorfe describesa similar action in Switzerland 19. Century; Cellar narration was toned of Frederick Delius as opera.
• West simmers story, musical to the music of Leonard amber.
• Josh - my heart belongs to you (Bollywood version)

Casa di Giulietta

In Verona , on short way from the Piazza inheritance far away , after excessive quantities the parents' house of the Julia is. The Skaligerbau in the via Cappello 27 originally belonged to the sex Del Cappello (which outthe stone coat of arms in the Gewölbebogen of the backyard comes out) and into the last century as stranger lodging one used.

Web on the left of

• Romeo & Julia - the MUSICAL in Vienna [1]
• pictorial summary
• German translation of the complete drama with [DigBib.Org]