I very much enjoyed reading Romeo and Juliet. To be honest I knew very little about it before it was assigned. As far as my favorite scenes it would have to be most of Mercutio's or the nurse's parts because they had a great sense of humor. I did notice that there was a tone of scene changes. How in the world did Shakespeare put this on as a play. He was definitely a genius. If I were to rewrite this for teens... I would just hand them Twilight. If you changed it into a modern english it would all seem so cliche, in my opinion. A boy and a girl fall in "love" and die for each other. It would just seem so predictable. But with the play being in old english there's a sense of knowing that it must be original and that all other stories are trying to top it.
Wow I really need to work on making my blog posts flow better :/
-Madalynne
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
-Barry LePatner
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."
-Jerry Seinfeld
Hand them Twilight...? Not a paticuarly good idea, but somehow inevitable :/
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