comparison or Romeo and Juliet

Comparison of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the 1996 remake by Baz Luhrmann Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was written in the late 1500's. Critics tended to disparage this play in comparison to the four great tragedies Shakespeare wrote in the first decade of the seventeenth century (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Othello). Assessed next to the Bard's mature works, Romeo and Juliet appears to lack the psychological depth and the structural complexity of Shakespeare's later tragedies. …

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