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Unit BibliographyRomeo and Juliet. Dir. Carlo Carlei. Prod. Julian Fellowes. Perf. Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld. Echo Lake Entertainment, 2013. DVD.This film is one of the most recent versions of the classic play. It follows the traditional dialogue and setting of the original play with very few modern elements. The film serves a secondary purpose in this unit as a part of the latter half of the unit’s focus on film analysis. As a medium of literature, this film provides students with an adaptation of the classic work that remains largely true to the intentions of the author. The film supports the goals of the unit by allowing students to view a visual medium communicating the same themes as the play, but in a more creative or artistic way than simply text. Shakespeare, William, and John Crowther. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Spark Pub., 2003. Print.This version of the traditional text includes the original text alongside a reader-friendly translation. The translation often clarifies the action taking place or the location of characters within a scene. While including a translation in the choice of student reading is not highly academic or maintaining the integrity of the original text, the option of reading a more simplistic and modernized text will move students through the basic comprehension of the play towards the more analytical pieces of the unit. The higher-achieving students in the class will retain the option of only reading the original text, but struggling readers can keep up with the rest of the class while still being able to identify important literary elements throughout the unit like theme and plot. Shakespeare, William, and Jill L. Levenson. Romeo and Juliet. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Print.This version of the original text will be available to students for selecting and preparing their scenes for the group performances. This version is more conducive to this assignment because it lacks the translation alongside the text and will be more easily copied for the scripts of each group member. The translations are not an option for the group scenes so that students will, if they haven’t already, have to comprehend and interact with the original text of the play. This text supports the goals of the unit by having students encounter and understand the original language of Shakespeare, including stage directions as they act out their chosen scene. William Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 1996. DVD.This film is used in the unit for an opposing version of the original play compared to the 2013 modernized version. There are many aspects of the film that took great artistic license by completing removing the traditional setting and placing the events in modern Venice Beach, CA. The addition of teen heartthrobs as the main characters make the film a much different viewing experience than the more traditional versions. Students will be able to contrast the way the themes of the play are communicated in this sensationalized version from the traditional films, an even the original play itself. This film supports the goals of the unit by allowing students to critically analyze film as a medium of literature and track the changes to the themes and literary elements when an adapted story is greatly altered from the original text. ................
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