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DHSHXMain MenuIntroduction: What's Digital Shakespeare?An explanation of why this book exists.Learning Goals & This BookThe learning goals that this book will addressWhere to Start in this BookA List of Primary Paths Available in the Book"DH" | Digital Methods for Literary StudyAn opening Page containing paths for learning about digital methods & the study of Literature/ShakespeareShakespeare: The BasicsShakespeare: The DigitalPath for how digital technology enhances the study of Shakespeare's worksUnits on Specific WorksHome Page for Paths with Specific Plays & Poems"DH" AssignmentsAssignments that make use of digital texts, tools, or bothVimala C. Pasupathiceefc20a3151658461abeb1911f30e5d016aa34bHeather Froehlich5639e57a03aa50c93c99bd45c43a043de977f7d9Emily Sherwoodad202272cf9b8dc4091c179ce0cc26ba6b98d81c
Romeo and Juliet
12017-03-20T15:54:15-07:00Emily Sugermanc85730949e4929a2629bf90a6aeab801c77592a81012614homepageplain2017-04-07T14:22:37-07:00Doug Eskew380c75a2489e4505cb29c2f6ee73b68d6b80000eRomeo and Juliet is a story of star-crossed lovers, intergenerational conflict and of the tragedy of revenge cycles. Audiences have long been drawn to the story of the two lovers from Verona whose doomed passion for each other proves capable of transcending their families’ hate. The death of the young lovers accomplishes that which Prince Escalus’s warnings could not when, at the conclusion, Capulet and Montague finally take each other’s hands and lay their unexplained feud to rest.
Voyant Excercise First, open the full text ofthe play and copy it. Next, go to Voyant. Paste the text of Romeo and Juliet into the box.
As the Prologue’s Chorus explains, the Capulets and Montagues, two prominent families in Verona, are locked into a violent and seemingly endless feud. Why are they feuding? We are not told. They are feuding because they are feuding; the quarrel no longer demands a reiteration of its first cause but is instead extended by the vengeance that is enacted after each fresh crime. Thus, violence proliferates and the feud becomes self-perpetuating. As each family demands blood as justice for the death of one of their own, the violence continues in an intractable revenge cycle. The characters of Romeo and Juliet break this cycle and are drawn together despite their families’ mutual loathing.
Adaptations of the play have used the Capulet-Montague feud to explore how enmity and hatred fuel retributive violence in various times and places. Productions of the play may use the intractability of the Montague-Capulet conflict to explore divisions of class, race, religion, ethnicity, language, and other types of community conflict. https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/new-mutiny-the-violence-of-romeo-and-juliet
12017-03-19T14:26:20-07:00Emily Sugermanc85730949e4929a2629bf90a6aeab801c77592a8Rom. The Friar4plain2017-03-19T15:59:45-07:00Emily Sugermanc85730949e4929a2629bf90a6aeab801c77592a8
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