Top Set Analysis: Romeo and Juliet
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- In today’s video I go through some sophisticated ideas about William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. I call these videos ‘top set analysis’, but they are for anyone who wants to look into some of the more complex ideas within a text.
0:00 Fate explained
0:30 Oxford University lecture on how the prologue links to fate
1:43 'Syntactical inevitability' (Dr Emma Smith)
2:15 Genre and fate
2:57 James Black's 1975 thoughts on intensification through parallel
8:48 Why does the nurse speak in blank verse in Act 1, Scene 3? Nurturing and comedy.
12:09 Why doesn't the nurse appear on-stage at the end of the play? Unredeemed social order.
14:11 Why does the friar speak about plants for 30 lines? Transforming vice into virtue.
15:42 Why does Benvolio speak in religious language?
17:20 Why does Paris transform in Act 5? The play's second antagonist.
19:15 Why does Lord Capulet change his mind about Paris marrying Juliet? Patriarchy in Elizabethan England.
21:26 Surprising parallels between Romeo and Juliet. How character locations are important.
References:
Bartolovich, Crystal, ‘“First as Tragedy, then as…”: Gender, Genre, History, and Romeo and Juliet’, found in ‘Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies’ (Routledge, 2016)
Black, James, ‘The Visual Artistry of Romeo and Juliet’ (Calgary Press, 1975)
Cartwright, Kent, ‘Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double’, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992)
Gamboa, Brett, 'Shakespeare’s Double Plays: Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage’ (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Kanekar, Aarati, ‘Architecture’s Pretexts: Spaces of Translation’, (Routledge, 2014)
Lee, Dr Emma, ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ Podcast, (Oxford University, 2015)
Levenson, Jill, ‘Echoes Inhabit a Garden: The Narratives of Romeo and Juliet’, found in ‘Shakespeare Survey: Volume 53, Shakespeare and Narrative’ (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Marks, Jonathan, ‘Fools for love? Shakespeare's qualified defense of Romeo and Juliet’, in the Ignatuius Critical Edition of Romeo and Juliet, (Ignatuius, 2011)
Synder, Susan, ‘Shakespeare: A Wayward Journey’, (University of Delaware Press, 2008)
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watching this the day before my Romeo and Juilet exam, all of your ideas are so perceptive and will definitely help with getting the highest marks!! I feel so much more confident after watching this. Love your videos , keep up the amazing work
goodluck for tmrw mate
same bro but im still so cooked good luck
@@luked4427 you too
@@randomguy6608 dw u will do fine
howd it go yall? my exam was for tkam and it went well, but my r+j exam is on monday
im putting this on the night before my english exam😢😭😭 hoping osmosis will stick some of it in my brain😭
howd it go?? my r+j exam is in a few days so 😭
Watching this during my morning poo before my exam has done barely any revision for this one and I an pretty worried but I hope your videos can get me through this sir
😂
It's also interesting with the comparison between Friar Lawrence and the Nurse (both calling Paris/Romeo 'wax') that they can be seen as parallel characters too! Where the Nurse is positioned as a supportive figure for Juliet, the friar fulfils this role for Romeo - all of the characters have parallel characters like this. e.g. Romeo has Juliet, Lord Capulet lord Montague, etc.
Yes I agree- I explore the idea of surrogate parents in my character analysis videos on the friar and the nurse.
@@mrbruff Ok I'll watch that! Thank you so much fr your videos they're really helping me with my revision :)
The mention of stars during scenes like when r&J die brings us back to the fact that they are star crossed (there relationship is doomed to die). This also links to fate as in shake spears times people believed if your fate was written in the stars it was doomed to happen
Absolutely!
Good luck tomorrow guys😅
Very good and helpful at all costs. Going to year 11 and I hope everything goes smoothly for me.
I'm glad you found the video helpful.
how smooth is it
Mr Bruff, would you have any videos on context for Macbeth, A christmas carol, and An inspector calls. As those are the books I'm studying for gcse, and I can't find them in your playlists
Yes. For the most part, points on context are built into the general videos I have on these texts. I have playlists on each you've mentioned.
@@mrbruff thank you!
@@tcvcoins8922 lol I’m doing inspector calls
@@Goldenwhitewings how is it?
@@tcvcoins8922 not sure I start it tomorrow
Also, at the end of the play we don't see Lady Montague either which suggests she may have passed away due to shock. Just thought I should mention :)
It's true we don't see Lady Montague, but she is mentioned: "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:" My point is that the nurse is absent with no explanation.
@@mrbruff Ohh I see. Thank you so much!
exam is today in 8 hours... if i pass we thank mr bruff
Hi Mr Buff please could you soon do marriage in Romeo and Juliet and also what would you recommend I do to improve my eng lang AQA
Study
has anyone got any ideas on what to write about for old people vs young people? ive got assessments coming up and my brain is not braining😅😭
could i use this for the eduqas exam board
It appears that Eduqas doesn't assess context for the Shakespeare question (pastpapers.download.wjec.co.uk/S22/s22-C722U10-A-ms.pdf) so if that's the case, ignore all points on context and the rest will apply.
i’m so cooked ‼️
3 weeks before the exam lets gooooooooo lmao i will let yall know how i did
IB? A levels? GCSE?
@@timotyender3979 probs GCSE
Im in the same boat
nah my exam is on Wednesday I'm actually dying rn
@@saturnsandjupiters358 Mate at least urs aint in 12 HOURS
i cant concentrate help
same I have intense adhd- try watching with white noise in the background or speed up the video that's what I dooooo