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This 9 page report discusses the fact that there are certain comic elements in Shakespeare’s best-known play, “Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare weaves the humorous into the tragic and the result is one that is all the more realistic because of its multi-dimesionality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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youth, while also serving as models for the passion of young lovers for one another. Musicians, poets, composers, singers, and more, have spent (literally) centuries devising the best way to
tell the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet through their own unique interpretation. For example, in opera and symphony the pathos of the story is told through musical purity and
beauty. Ballet demonstrates the grace and intensity of the couple and the ways in which their fates are governed by forces larger than two teenagers in love. The story is
one of great soaring passion that is mixed with despair. What is so often forgotten is that there are certain comic factors presented in terms of both the tragedy
and romance that is the essence of "Romeo and Juliet." After all, when Shakespeare decided that a play was to be humorous, he made it clear that it was funny,
so why consider that there may be humor in the tragedy of the young lovers. Nobody doubts the humor of a donkey in love with a fairy queen in "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" or the crazy machinations of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" or "The Taming of the Shrew." All of these plays make it clear that Shakespeare is being
funny. However, one of the many examples of Shakespeares masterful skills is demonstrated when he presents stories in which the humor can be seen in the tragic. Such is certainly
the case in "Romeo and Juliet." A World of Teenage Love At its most fundamental core and separate from the stories of family intrigue and political maneuvering, "Romeo and
Juliet" is the story of two young people, struggling to reach adulthood and overcome the artificial constraints that their elders and their social situation have placed on them. Many
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