ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mercutio, Analog Science Fiction And Fact, Character Theory
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How much of the play would you have to change to make it a comedy. Mercutio"s death, and the lovers have to stay alive at the end. Everything about the future of the world of this play would have to look different. A tragedy built upon the structure of a comedy. It"s not until the 21st century that actors for romeo and juliet come to be the same age. Up until then it has featured playing fathers and daughters, siblings, men to men, women to women (most famous romeo was a female), a husband to his wife. The plays weirdness about her youth gets recast in weird ways -sometimes a 40 year age gap between them. During its creation, it was an all male cast. These households are both alike, both notable in verona. Juliet thinks through the logic of a name to a person, in a way she"s asking is it the part, or is it the whole.
