ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Comic Potential, Friar Laurence, Dramatization
22 Jan 2016
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He did not make up this story, its been retold for centuries based on an italian work. When shakespeare published this, there was already 2 english versions published. Poem by arthur brooke the goodly history of the true and constant love between. Romeo and julieta and tragic love story of romeos and juliette . Shakespeare"s poetry is dramatic poetry; his version of the story is a play not a poem. This is important because it eliminates an intrusive narrative voice. Roughly 30 years separate brookes poem and the play. They both have a problem, complication, resolution structure. o o. In a mnd- the first act sets up the comic problems of the plot and the subplot, act 2-4 complicate these plots, act 5 its all solved. In r&j act 1 problem arises, 2-4 problem after problem, act 5 resolution, they both die and the social disorder with which the play began is over the family feud.
