From West to East: Romeo Must Die but Shakespeare is the Sun

Abstract

The paper presents a mini survey of the hallmark English language motion pictures which are explicitly based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The selection of the six films under investigation takes into account various criteria such as aspects of chronology, culture, impact or novelty of approach. The analysis is based on four categories: genre, auteurism (authorship), reception and verisimilitude.

Keywords

• film theory
• genre
• auteurism (authorship)
• reception theory
• verisimilitude