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This paper analyzes the Mercutio/Tybalt fight/death scene from Romeo and Juliet, and describes the scene's overall impact on the play itself. Also in this paper are analyses of film treatment of the Shakesperian play, including Zefferelli's 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet and Luhrman's 1996 version, Romeo + Juliet. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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directors have attempted to successfully capture the story of innocent love told against the backdrop of feuding families on film. Putting any William Shakespeare play on film is difficult and
can be a challenge to even the most experienced director. Shakespeare, first of all, was a playwright, and the stage is a vastly different medium from that of film. In
addition, Shakespeares somewhat cumbersome dialogue littered with iambic pentameter (cumbersome even by 16th century standards) makes a difficult transition to the screen if not handled correction. As a result, some
directors have handled a transition of Romeo and Juliet to the screen while others, despite their best intentions, have not done quite as well.
Regardless of how well the Bards words translate to either the silver screen or television screen, one scene in the work, Act III, Scene i, is a pivotal
and powerful point of the work; if a director, in fact, is going to cut any scenes, it will not be this particular one. Act III, Scene i sets the
play right on course, moving it quickly and inevitably to its destructive and tragic end. The scene in question, in which the simmering tempers between the houses of Capulet and
Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo, a member of the House of Montague who has
just secretly married his beloved Juliet, who is of the "enemy camp," suffers true ambivalence about his role as a family member, man and friend. It also comes before the
news that Juliet is slated to marry another man; news that she takes hard and, combined with the death of her kinsmen, causes her to take drastic measures so that
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