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Romeo & Juliet: The Contemporary Film, The Classic Play
Full title: | Romeo & Juliet: The Contemporary Film, The Classic Play |
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ISBN: | 9780440227120 |
ISBN 10: | 0440227127 |
Authors: | Shakespeare, William |
Publisher: | Laurel Leaf |
Edition: | Movie Tie-In |
Num. pages: | 320 |
Binding: | Mass Market Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 1996 |
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Synopsis
Award-winning director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) has updated Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and teen suicide in a unique new film, in which the warring Capulets and Montagues are gangsters who carry guns instead of swords. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries) and Claire Danes (My So-Called Life, Little Women) as the doomed lovers, the film is set in a modern city. The actors speak Shakespeare's words—but with their own American accents.
Readers can now experience this new vision of Shakespeare's violent, tragic play alongside the Bard
s original text, in a special single volume that features an introduction by the film's director.
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's drama in which young lovers attempt to defy fate.