Shakespeare in Film

I Am Romeo

Antnhec has an amateur video posted on YouTube exploring the world of Romeo.

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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Movie

Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 movie ‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’ is a very accessible version of the play. Modern secondary school students, I think, react to this movie in a similar way to how Shakespeare’s original – audience would have reacted. We forget how revolutionary this early play of Shakespeare’s was, but Luhrmann brings his audience face to face to the scandal of tampering with the Bard.

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