Anyone studying Romeo and Juliet in school?????

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Is there??

I'm normally not so wishy-washy but that play has class, people! It's awesome to be able to say "yeah, I read that play- totally- it was awesome".

I'm doing it in school now. Epic stuff. Honestly, epic stuff.

What do you think of it?

To be honest, I like it so much, I wrote a lil' song about it, and made the plot into an epic storyboard. http://death2falsemetal.deviantart.com/ ... -206674433

So does anyone at all like it, or does everyone just say "oh Romeo and Juliet were idiots..... and the language sucks, and Shakespeare sucks".... and I don't really like Shakespeare- EXCEPT for that play, otherwise, all that old-timey stuff sucks as well.

What DO you people think, then?!

We are doing it now too! It's pretty good. There was one part in it that gave me nightmares though. (I don't know where you are in the story, so I don't want to say what part it was because I don't want to give anything away) The language is kind of confusing, but the teacher explains what's going on and allows us to go to a site where we can read a modern translation of it.

We did "A Midsummer Night's Dream" last year and I found it very confusing, this one is much better.

I had to read Romeo and Juliet in the ninth grade. I actually enjoyed it. My teacher had us read individual parts (I read the part of Friar Laurence) and made it easy for us to understand. Whenever it's Shakespeare you're reading, everybody is going to have trouble understanding it unless there's a teacher there to explain everything.

I also read Julius Caesar in the tenth grade, but I didn't enjoy that as much as I enjoyed R&J.

I'm finished it. Tell me, I'm curious what part you found creepy.

Look, I'm kind of obsessed with it, AS style, but it's more secondary to the TV show Saturday Night Live at the moment (as in I like and obsess about SNL more than R/J, but I'm obsessed with them both).

I wrote a song about it as I said. Nothing odd about that, eh?

My favourite character is Tybalt because of his awful name. If you have never heard it pronounced, you're like "TIE-balt" what a good name for a bad guy, and then the teacher said "TI-bult" and I was like.... "what???" (to make matters worse, I once played a game called Animal Crossing for GameCube and there was a character called Tybalt, and I'd been saying it "TIE-balt" all that time.)

But Tybalt is seriously ridiculous. I have fantasies where I listen to my rap music and it's performed by Tybalt or Benvolio or Mercutio (but mostly, all 3 of them).

I don't look like a person who'd get all caught up with a love story, y'know...? I'm wearin' my leather jacket, rockin' to Eminem, Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Weezer, etc, and singing along in my Irish accent and rocking an awesome denim shirt over a Saturday Night Live t-shirt.

And btw, Romeo and Juliet is the only good play I've ever read, and ever likely to read. And it's 1:50... am.

I found the part where Juliet was about to take the potion creepy.

Oooh yeah, forgot about that bit.

It was a good scene, but it needed more cowbell. (A million points if you get that joke).

Oh, I just can't help myself:

Here is another take on it:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnFE_NpMsE[/youtube]

That.....was.....genius!! !! !

We did Romeo and Juliet my freshman year of high school, i found it to be pretty hard to understand and then we watched the Leonardo Dicaprio version which was really good.

Well, not everybody.


That was hilarious.

We read Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade English, and I liked it a lot.

I read it in the 9th grade as well. Afterward, the teacher showed us the 1960's movie, which was less than helpful. When the Claire Danes/Leonardo DiCaprio version came out in the 90's, I finally really got it. I love that movie now.

This.

Read it in 9th grade, too.

We read it in grade 10. In grade 9, we read "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Understanding the language (technically it's Modern English - Early Modern, but still) is easy enough - recognising the then-current pop. culture references, court toadying, accents, stage conventions and so on is a different matter. Anyone who ain't an amateur of the period is gonna miss references in a Shakespeare play; that's probably not what D. meant, but I'd be wary of claiming to understand the bugger.

We never read Midsummer Night's Dream, although in 8th grade (or 7th, too long ago to remember) the drama class put on a play of it, which wasn't too bad.


Yeah, that's not what I meant.

We are going to watch the movie tomorrow.