Comparing William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Shakespeare was a brilliant play writer. His plays have been performed for almost 500 years! One of the greatest plays he ever wrote was Romeo and Juliet. But time change and so does the world, and Romeo and Juliet did for 500 years. People making their own versions of Romeo and Juliet. Disney has make their own version so had Broadway. Let's looks at some of the differences and what has stayed the same in Shakespeare's plays.
First, Shakespeare's plays are similar to ours now days. In movies, and plays all across the board. Let me first ask what is your favorite movie and why. It's probably a movie that made you feel something like hope, or anger, fear, or happiness. Well that's what was really big for Shakespeare. He made the audience feel

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