Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare U.

Romeo and Juliet-the main masterpiece of the early period of the work of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Through centuries, her understanding changed. The viewer of the XVII century easily read sacred images and symbols, put above all rock, fate, providence and was ready to know the world and himself through the perception of conditional theatrical action. In the 19th century, the tragedy became a romantic love story, which was interpreted as a victory of love over death, and as a struggle for love with the hostile world, and just as a symbol of pure love. And in the 21st century there are even cynical statements, the story of two lovers seems implausible.

However, no matter how this tragedy, reader and viewer were perceived at any time, plunging into the unrivaled drama world of Shakespeare, receives aesthetic pleasure from beauty and the ambiguity of his artistic images, an impeccable composition, thought out to the smallest details, a unique originality of language and style.

for middle and senior school age.