![]() ![]() It represents bloated, Hollywood-ized Shakespeare. Generations of students are watching a crappy music video called Romeo + Juliet, thinking that it represents Shakespeare. ![]() There weren't many, but many props they did have were swords. The props that were available for Elizabethan-era productions were limited to what the company could afford to supply. The actors were, indeed, frenetic in their performance, and the pace was such, for many plays (late tragedies being an exception), that the humorous scenes came off like slapstick. ![]() Shakespeare's vision was created for performance in the Globe's open air atmosphere with few effects, little "flash," and a bawdy appeal to the common-folk. It is visually FAR from the way the play was intended to be seen. I am a high school English teacher, and I find Luhrmann's treatment insulting. ![]()
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