In my opinion, Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most archetypal love story in the English language, it portrays only a very specific type of love: young, irrational, passionate love.
Society became more open and less oppressed. This was when England became a protestant nation, having broken away from papal control by Henry VIII. Shakespeare was writing following ‘The Reformation’. Suicide and bigamy were both considered to be mortal sins. It was a ‘catholic’ society with a strong belief in damnation for mortal sin. Religion Romeo & Juliet was set during a very religious period. William Shakespeare has the flow of romance. A time of significant change in the fields of religion, politics, science, language and the arts.
Having looked at the historical background, this movie was the period of Elizabeth era which was also known as the renaissance. Different from one another as they are, these three plays share some notable features: the setting of intense personal tragedy in a large world vividly populated by what seems like the whole range of humanity a refusal, shared by most of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in the theater, to separate comic situations and techniques from tragic the constant presence of politics and a personal rather than a conventional phenomenon a tragic structure in which what is best in the protagonist is what does him in when he finds himself in conflict with the world. Shakespeare’s only tragedies of the period are among his most familiar plays: Romeo and Juliet (1596), Julius Caesar (1599), and Hamlet (1601). It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George’s Day. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. And died in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, at 23 April 1616. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, at 26 April 1564. “Theme Analysis of Film ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 1996 by William Shakespeare”
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