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On the ways that Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet have been imagined and interpreted in performance, from the reasons for their tragedy to their portrayals of parents and children. The development of the theater in Elizabethan England and the building of the Globe Theatre. The theatricality of daily life and self-presentation in the Renaissance that gave rise to the theaters. The nineteenth-century Romantic interpretation of Hamlet as meditative and introspective, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, and the influence of historical versions of the play on audiences and actors today. Two different film versions of Romeo and Juliet: Baz Luhrmann's (1996) and Franco Zeffirelli's (1968).
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