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This week I'm reading

12/8/2015

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Don't try this at home. Don't try any of it - advertising your party on social media, climbing into people's gardens at night, playing with swords....Also I don't really recommend reading it. Shakespeare didn't mean his plays to be read. He meant them to be performed. Anyone can enjoy the 30 minute  Animated Shakespeare version ; if you want to see the whole play, watch the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film.
There are many things I don't like about this play. It makes you embarrassed to be an adult, for one thing. For another, I dont believe the great love would have lasted. Romeo and Juliet get married knowing nothing about each other except that they're both good looking and none of their parents will approve.
Of course there is some beautiful poetry. But the parts I like are the little glimpses of real human behaviour. Catch Juliet trying to sound casual when finding out Romeo's name (Act 1 Scene5 lines128 onwards ) - or the Capulets organising a party at the beginning of Act IV Scene 4, before everything goes horribly wrong.
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    Rachel

    graduated with an MA in English from Somerville College, Oxford University, and  continued her post-graduate studies with a PGCE, specialising in Primary Education.

    She has taught at leading schools in London and New York, and now works as a tutor teaching English and Latin to children aged between four and fifteen.

    She and her husband have five grown-up children who attended leading universities in  the UK, USA, China and Germany, and are  variously employed in law, journalism, hospitality, advertising and theatre. 

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