Query: Romeo and juliet

title: Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona
abstract: This article analyzes how mainstream artists respond to the dynamics of online fan communities, developing complex metanarratives that interrelate their songs and music videos with their "personal" activity on social media. Audiences analyze in depth and discuss each release, contributing to its viralization on the internet. However, these strategies need strong narratives that allow convincing developments and transmedia storytelling, and this is where literature becomes a significant source of inspiration. I argue that the assumption (or subversion) of popular literary characters and narratives contributes to a positioning of artists in the music scene and facilitates their "reading" by the audience. To illustrate this process, I analyze the references to Romeo and Juliet by mainstream pop artists in the last decade, paying special attention to Troye Sivan's debut album Blue Neighborhood (2015) considered a homosexual version of Shakespeare's drama, and to Halsey's concept album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017) understood as a queer version of the play. Both artists explained their personal reading of Shakespeare's drama as a way of expressing their own feelings and experiences. These examples of metanarrative storytelling achieved their aim, and millions of fans engaged with both artists, discussing lyrics, photos and music videos related to Romeo and Juliet on social media.

title: A Study on the Love in Romeo and Juliet from the Perspective of Christianity
abstract: Based on the case study of Romeo and Juliet, this paper mainly analyses the Christian influence on Shakespeare's works. In order to demonstrate the function of Christian culture in Shakespeare's works, the author chooses Juliet and Romeo as the research text to analyze the Christian elements that affect the love between Romeo and Juliet.

title: Localizing Romeo and Juliet: Ram Leela, Female Agency, and Indian Politics
abstract: This essay explores Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram Leela (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2013) a Bollywood adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, from a local/political and female centred angle. Bhansali's Romeo and Juliet localizes and provincializes Romeo and Juliet by situating it in Gujarat with recognizable traditional dance numbers, and considerably mythologizes the hypotext1 by the prioritization given to festivals and the parallels between the leading pair and well known Hindu divinities. But, localization is not exempt from problems in this film, for dance and Hindu myths are both markers of tension in modern day India. The constant ambiguities they bring up inevitably point to the non isomorphic flows that characterize the nation state. This tension also finds its niche in the depiction of women in the film. Bhansali's adaptation equally shows women that are oppressed the girl in the item number (musical number inserted in the film) and the widows (neither finding a Shakespearean counterpart) women that are at one and the same time oppressed and resistant (Dhankor Baa/Lady Capulet and Leela/Juliet) and some women showing signs of female agency at the end of the adaptation. National tensions find their counterpart in tensions that inform Ram Leela as an adaptation: this is a work that is both a Shakespearean adaptation and a Bollywood film, the two forms interacting with each other in a unique combination. Ram Leela not only provides new understandings of Romeo and Juliet and, ultimately, Shakespeare, but also of the contingencies and complexities of modern day India.

title: Analysis of Causes of Tragic Fate in Romeo and Juliet Based on Shakespeare's View of Fate
abstract: Romeo and Julie is the most famous play of Shakespeare, and the tragic fate of its characters is mainly revealed by the tragic story between Romeo and Juliet, which has high literary aesthetics and artistic values. Based on the Shakespeare's view of tragic fate, this paper mainly analyses what Shakespeare's views of fate were in his time and discusses what kinds of causes eventually trigger the death of Romeo and Juliet. Besides, the author aims to explore different personal weaknesses that these characters may have in the play, and finally concludes how these characteristics of different characters push the whole play to develop. Through the full analysis, the author finds out that various reasons are contributing to the tragic ending such as the two households' resentment and rage, Paris' love to Juliet, Romeo's pursuit for idealistic love, Juliet's insistence on free love, and the old and patriarchal society, etc. At last, the author concludes that at the very start of writing Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare would like to express his indignation to the feudal society and the patriarchal rules by telling the tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet, with which he also criticized the decadent and feudal system at that time.

title: A Moral Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
abstract: Though William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is most often read as a tragic love story, the setting in which it takes place, as well as the ideals of people in Elizabethan England, support a moral focused reading of the play, rather than a fateful or romantic reading. The impassioned, reckless actions of the star crossed lovers and the lack of guidance in their trusted mentor, Friar Laurence, combine to form a tale of caution, warning Elizabethan audience members of what happens when faith and logic are set aside and impulse and emotion take over. The possibility of Romeo and Juliet being a warning to readers and audience members rather than a romance is reinforced by the explicitly sinful thoughts and actions of the characters, who knowingly and continually go against their Catholic faith, ultimately resulting in their deaths. Shakespeare's iconic love story is, in actuality, saturated with moral reproach toward the actions of the adolescent, impressionable lovers and their misguided but well meaning advisor and priest, whose naivety led to the demise of young Romeo and Juliet.  Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, Catholicism, Morality.

title: THE STRUGGLE TO AGAINST PATRIARCHAL DOMINANCE IN ROMEO AND JULIET DRAMA
abstract: This research aimed to find out the form of Juliet's struggle against patriarchal dominance in a drama under the title Romeo and Juliet. The research was a descriptive qualitative research. The theory of feminism belonged to Simone de Beauvoir and Sylvia Walby to find out the patriarchal dominance. The results of this study indicated that women at that time were only seen as objects in patriarchal societies which placed the position of men, especially fathers as leaders and decision makers. This condition had an impact on limiting women's space and rights so that they unconsciously submitted and accepted it as something normal. Juliet was also a victim of male masculine dominance. She was an object to be exchanged in marriage and objects contested by men. Juliet's form of resistance also varied from making excuses for not getting married, eloping with Romeo and leaving her family, to drink the potion given by Friar Lawrence.

title: Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Romeo and Juliet in Film and Pop Music
abstract: This chapter explores the significance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet represented in the films and pop music. By the theories of cultural theory and popular culture, I explore the examples, including: (1) Director Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' musical film West Side Story on racial immigrants' conflicts in America. (2) Director Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo Juliet starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the teenagers' chemistry imbues freshness. (3) Director Baz Luhrmann's Romeo Juliet (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) is on spectacle and hyper reality. (4) Italian Director Carlo Carlei's Romeo Juliet has a classic aroma. (5) Taylor Swift's MV song "Love Story" modernizes Shakespeare by pop music. (6) "Late Late Show with James Corden" performing the soundtrack with Emily Blunt is humorous.

title: Romeo and Juliet are sexting: consent, countertime and literary voice
abstract: Romeo and Juliet is 'a tragedy of the name' that is, a story about how the 'civil brawls' between two feuding families determine the life stories of the protagonists, since Romeo and Juliet are born 'from forth the fatal loins of these two foes' The title of the play, Romeo's and Juliet's names, determines the tragic plot, which ends with their deaths, but also offers these lovers a certain timelessness. Reading the all time canonical tale of pubescent love as a tragedy that stages young love as rash and risky, this essay juxtaposes the image abundant and flirty communication between Shakespeare's tragic lovers with the contemporary phenomenon of digital sexting. It argues that their exchange shares with this contemporary form of love letters a risk of its 'fatal' publicity, and that this possibility the risk that their messages do not arrive at the right place at the right time is integral to the communication. It foregrounds the question of voice and its complex undertakings of both mediating our social being and constituting the grain of our subjectivity and suggests that Romeo's and Juliet's excessive speech can challenge our distributions of privacy and agency in the context of our cultural discussions about teenage sexuality.

title: Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet

title: LibGuides: Romeo and JUliet: Romeo and Juliet