She is a Capulet, and her father asks Paris to wait for two years, until Juliet at least turns fourteen. Romeo is a son of Montague, is in love with a girl that does not love him back, named Rosaline.Īt the same time, Paris is in love with Juliet, and asks her to marry him. The citizens are not happy with the constant turbulencies, so the ruler of Verona decides to put a stop to the uproar by bringing a death sentence to the picture for anyone who starts a fight in the future. One of the Montagues – Benvolio, tries to put a stop to the fight, but instead of stopping it, he involves himself in it as Tybalt, from the Capulet clan arrives. The drama begins as the servants of two noble families, Capulet and Montague are having a fight in the streets of Verona. His life-work consists of around 40 plays. William Shakespeare was an English playwright and actor who is considered as one of the most influential playwrights in the world history. If you are a lover of flowery language and want to read classic works, this is where you should start.

“Romeo and Juliet” is a classical play written by one of the most influential playwrights of all times. Thus, adaptations of Shakespeare's text are necessarily involved in queering the queer(ed): a pomosexual process that ultimately leads to the breakdown of the normative signification system.Is there a person that does not know their love story? Who Should Read “Romeo and Juliet” and Why? 'Romeo and Juliet' is a historical text that has been adapted, and thus queered, numerous times Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is itself an adaptation and therefore is always already a queer text.

Adaptation, as a process of re-writing/disrupting a normative, 'originary,' historically situated text, is by definition a queer process. I argue that queering involves the non-normative and disruptive process(es) of reading texts. By engaging in new queer or pomosexual readings of Shakespeare's text, in relation to various adaptations, including 'Shakespeare in Love, Tromeo and Juliet ', and 'Get Real', this thesis challenges the traditional heteronormative reading of the play and argues that the play itself is queer. 'This work investigates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', one of the exemplary heteronormative love stories in Western culture.

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