Sunday, May 2, 2010

Lambert Henri-Louis: Cours du Lundi29/04 (Shakespear in love)

Vocabulary:
steps =>étapes
instead of => au lieu de
fear =>la peur
to fear =>avoir peur

Questions 9 to 12 :

9: The topic of the film seems to be impossible love between Shakespeare and Viola, a playwright and a well-born lady, as well as Romeo and Juliet.
Another topic is the different steps/stages of the creation of the play, here Romeo and Juliet as well as all the problems coming with/belonging to the direction of a play including financial problems as we can see at the beginning of the film.

10: Shakespeare burns the first version of Romeo and Rosaline because the latter cheated on him.

11: He meets Christopher Marlowe, another playwright, his main competitor who was extremely famous at the time before he was assassinated.

12: It is the real synopsis of Romeo and Juliet, that is to say Romeo is a young man of Verona, always in and out of love until he meets Ethel, the daughter of his enemy.

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