21st Folio Podcast

In part two of our discussion about Baz Luhrmann's and Franco Zeffirelli's film, we compare the final death scenes, contemplate the water imagery in Luhrmann's film, and ask "What makes Shakespeare 'Shakespeare'"? That is, at what point is Romeo & Juliet no longer Shakespeare? We discuss ballet, opera, translations, modernized language, and try to determine how we can evaluate at what point it's merely an adaptation of the Bard and not the Bard's own work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.