Thus it is that Shakespeare's output reflects all three styles: in the tragedies, for example, Othello is Baroque, Hamlet and King Lear are Mannerist, and Romeo and Juliet is Renaissance.

Good luck. The setting of the play is the city state of Verona, in Renaissance Italy. The society and families in which Romeo and Juliet live put pressures on them as individuals and affect their ...

In “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare “strips away any consolation ... “Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England” (University of Chicago Press, 2014). And in rejecting posthumous ...

This ballet is old enough to nab a Freedom Pass, but refuses to act its age. Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1965, but 60 years on the wrenching tragedy, stippled with detail ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, set to the evocative score ... which transports the audience to a sumptuous Renaissance Verona with towering stone walls, archways, and balconies that ...

After a five-year wait due to COVID, The Sarasota Ballet presents a belated company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ...

Romeo and Juliet is now being presented at Milwaukee Rep. Get a first look at photos here! Step into the hills of Appalachia in this reimagined production of Shakespeare's most iconic play where ...

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why ...