Romeo and Juliet Movie and Text Comparison Essay Example

Romeo and Juliet movie and text comparison Shakespeare’s famous tragic play Romeo and Juliet is set in an ancient city of Verona, Italy. Three hundreds fifty years later, Baz Luhrman directed the modern version of Romeo +Juliet,which is set in Verona Beach California backdrop. Besides that, the course of events in Shakespeare’s play has a little different than movie. Two households, both alike in dignity,( in fair Verona, where we lay out scene)” (Act I, the prologue), these few lines indicate the whole play that occurred around the city of Verona, where the young men of the Capulet and Montague families hang out and get into fights one another. However, in Baz Luhrman’s film of Romeo+Juliet, it has reset the play in different city. Film Romeo+Juliet take place in the fictional city called Verona Beach. “Welcome to Verona B