2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet
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Studying Shakespeare in Performance
Directors use Shakespeare’s dialogue to suit their own purposes and it can become a question as to whether an audience sees the original play or a new adaptation of it. After extensive rehearsals and workshop experiments, a mixture of both is usually staged and a careful account of performance is needed to evaluate the director’s shaping influence.