The Most Insistent Subject of Popular Music : An Exploration of Romeo and Juliet Music Adaptations and Their Expressions of Modern Cultural Issues

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1597) has been persistently popular throughout history, especially in the modern production of popular music releases. People are often widely familiar with Romeo and Juliet’s usage throughout music. However, the reasoning behind the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is relatively undiscussed. Romeo and Juliet is a leading symbol of tragic romance, an ever-present topic in popular music. Romeo and Juliet’s canonical qualities lead music artists to adapt the original play since it permits access to an audience that is familiar with the contexts of Shakespeare’s tragedy. This essay also provides a clear definition of “adaptation,” requiring pieces to be extended engagements with a source text and provide their own interpretations of current cultural issues. As a result, the 1961 musical West Side Story and the 2017 studio album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom are examined. West Side Story reinvents the original Romeo and Juliet to express the racism against Puerto Rican immigrants present in 1950s New York. Hopeless Fountain Kingdom reverses the gender roles of the original play and establishes a feminist take on Romeo and Juliet that expresses the fluidity of female sexuality. Romeo and Juliet is adapted so often because it permits adaptors to assert their own stances on current social issues while preserving the canonical qualities of the play. Modern music artists continue to adapt Romeo and Juliet because it allows them to express current cultural tensions, making Romeo and Juliet music adaptations worthwhile reflections of issues that matter to artists and to their audiences

Love, Hatred And Death Reflected In Romeo And Juliet Movie Directed By Bazman Luhrmann (1996) : A Dynamic Structuralist Approach.

The objective of this study is to analyze love, hatred & death and also to find out moral values in Romeo and Juliet movie directed by Bazman Luhrmann (1996). The film being investigated is inspired by Romeo and Juliet drama written by the famous English writer namely William Shakespeare. The research methodology being employed in this thesis is the Qualitative Research. During this research, the researcher watches Romeo and Juliet movie directed by Bazman Luhrmann (1996) to get the detailed information coming from the movie which consists of love, hatred and death reflected in Romeo and Juliet movie and analyzes the character in the movie. The researchers also analyses the important role of love, hatred and death and the changing of the characters attitude caused by love, hatred and death reflected in Romeo and Juliet movie directed by Bazman Luhrmann (1996) based on Kernodle‟s principle. According to Kernodle every play has six possible values, and all six may help in different ways to give the play organization and unity. Kernodle also explains that structure consists of plot, character, theme and texture consists of dialogue, mood, spectacle. Theoretical Approach being used in this thesis is the theory based on the dynamic structuralist approach. First the researcher investigates how are love, hatred & death reflected in Romeo and Juliet movie. The second is what kinds of moral value are reflected in Romeo and Juliet movie

Speech Function on the Text Romeo and Juliet Drama

This research deals with speech function on the text Romeo and Juliet Drama. The objective of this study is to find out the types of speech function and the most dominant types of speech function on the test Romeo and Juliet Drama. Descriptive qualitative method was carried out to analyze the data. Source of data of this research would be taken from the text Romeo and Juliet Drama. Of the selected act, act 1 scene I to III, act 3 scenes I to V, and act 5 scene I to II. In collecting the data, some references related to speech function found out in the library. In analyzing the data, first each sentence in each act from the text Romeo and Juliet is underlined, second to identify the types of speech function which are mostly dominant, and the last to find the dominant type of speech function. The text of Romeo and Juliet drama were analyzed on the occurrences of speech function based on the types of speech function on the text Romeo and Juliet drama. There were 265 items, namely statements 154 items (58%), commands 41 items (15,5%), questions 40 items (15%), and offers 30 items (11,5%). And the dominant speech function is statements 154 items (58%).   Keywords: Speech function, drama, statement, command, question, offe

Star-Cross’d Lovers: Shakespeare and Prokofiev’s pas-de-deux in “Romeo and Juliet”

This article analyses the structure of Prokofiev's ballet score 'Romeo and Juliet' as an intersemiotic translation of Shakespeare's play

PROJECTION IN DIALOGUE ROMEO AND JULIET SHAKESPEARE’S

This thesis studies projection in the complex clauses which are found in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue. The aims of this study are (1) to find out the types of projection in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue, and (2) to find out the realization of projections in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue based on the data that have been analyzed in line with the theory of projection. The data of this study were clause complexes found in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue. This research is conducted by using a descriptive qualitative approach. The data are analyzed by using the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. The result shows that in (1) In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue, four types of projection were found, there were 55 clauses complexes of projection. Of the four types of projection that occurred, the highest number of occurrences is Paratactic Locution for 40 clauses (72,7%), followed by Hypotactic Locution for 8 clauses (14,5%), Paratactic Idea for 5 clauses (9,1%), and 2 clauses (3,7%) of Hypotactic Idea. (2) The realization of projection in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet dialogue in terms of verbal locutions and mental ideas. The verbal locution consists of 40 clause complexes for Paratactic Locution, and 8 clause complexes for Hypotactic Locution whereas the mental idea consists of 5 clause complexes for Hypotactic Idea and, 2 complex clauses for Paratactic Idea

RWU’s University College to Recognize Saint Raphael Academy as a STEAM Academy

After studying Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” Saint Raphael Academy students recreated the masquerade ball, listening to Elizabethan music and learning Elizabethan dance

11-08-2010 Romeo and Juliet at SWOSU on November 11-16

Romeo (Adam Boothby of Guymon) and Juliet (Eryn Brooks of Woodward) profess their love for each other in William Shakespeare\u27s Romeo and Juliet being presented November 11-16 at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford

Romeo and Juliet

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1938 performance of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families and how their relationship and deaths reconcile their families.https://pillars.taylor.edu/playbills/1304/thumbnail.jp

Marrying for Autonomy: A Feminist Analysis of Romeo and Juliet

Several Shakespeare scholars focus on the oppression of women in Shakespeare’s time, and maintain that stance when analyzing Romeo and Juliet. Some scholars argue that both Romeo and Juliet, but especially Juliet, are oppressed and passive in the events of the play. This paper argues that not only do both characters actively participate in their lives, but Juliet in particular determines her own fate. Juliet chooses not to abide by her parents’ wish that she marry Paris, and instead chases Romeo, despite knowing her parents’ expectations of her to marry the man they chose for her. This paper claims that, with the help of her nurse, Juliet makes rational decisions, showing that she does not have a history of impulsive actions. While Romeo may make impulsive decisions, those are a result of a lack of mature guidance, not a result of his own immaturity. The difference in their support systems shows how Juliet has the capability to make well-informed, reasonable decisions, and therefore chooses to commit suicide on her own accord. She determines her own fate, knows she would not live the life she wants if she lives, and chooses death over living an unhappy life. The paper uses feminist criticism and close reading to arrive at this conclusion. I wrote this paper for my English 6000 Intro to Graduate Studies course in the Fall 2020 semester