http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/romeo-and-juliet Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:55:51 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:55:51 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/343/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeares-theatrum-mundi-of-romance By Jeremy S. Page - Most famously soliloquized by the melancholy Jacques in As You Like It, the sentiment behind Theatrum Mundi was not invented by Shakespeare; there are accounts of Henry V possessing a tapestry depicting the seven ages of man, and in 1544 German artist Hans Baldung painted Die sieben Lebensalter des Weibes (The Seven Ages of Women) . Nevertheless, it is clear from the dramatic texts that Shakespeare was highly aware of the predominating weltanschauung, and perhaps combined it with his extensive knowledge of the theatrical conventions of the time to explore his view of human existence. Shakespeare... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/343/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeares-theatrum-mundi-of-romance http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/319/james-joyces-the-dead-replaying-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet By Patrick S. McArdle - Burdened by the tomes housing Joyce criticism, new texts that examine “The Dead” risk sinking into a critical vacuum. Peter J. Rabinowitz, in the idiom of reader-response criticism, labels this suction “interpretive vertigo,” while ironically adding to its collective pull.[1] The reader experiences Gabriel’s vertiginous sensibility due to the Joyce-specific reading rules of “hyperdense intertextuality” and “infinite etymology” (143). Rabinowitz thus displaces Gabriel’s disorientation at the moment he gazes up the stairwell towards Gretta... Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:37 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/319/james-joyces-the-dead-replaying-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/236/baz-luhrmanns-romeo-juliet-compared-with-shakespeares-original-work By Tori E. Godfree - Curiously enough, the corresponding scene from the film shows instead Benvolio and the “Montague boys” cruising along the freeway in a bright yellow convertible, laughing raucously, with one of them turning around to face the camera and yelling: “A dog of the house of Capulet moves me!”  They pull up to a gas station, Benvolio goes inside, and immediately afterward arrive Tybalt and the “Capulet boys,” Abraham (here abbreviated to Abra) and another.  Tybalt goes inside, but Abra remains next to the car, sees the Montague boys, and faces them with an... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:43 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/236/baz-luhrmanns-romeo-juliet-compared-with-shakespeares-original-work http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/94/how-now-hecate-the-supernatural-in-shakespeares-tragedies By Deva Jasheway - Hamlet and Macbeth are both examples in which the supernatural element enters the play at the opening of the action. The way a theatrical production begins has a great effect on the audience’s perception of the play, and both of these plays emphasize the supernatural from the start. The witches are the first characters we see in Macbeth, already prophesying and spouting paradoxical sayings. The stormy stage and odd characters establish early that this story occurs within an eerie and unnatural place. Hamlet brings the Ghost of the dead king to the plot’s fore in the first few scenes... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:28 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/94/how-now-hecate-the-supernatural-in-shakespeares-tragedies