Direct Act III Scene V of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Direct Act III Scene V of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Act III, scene v is a very important scene because it portrays the

true, everlasting love held between Romeo and Juliet in the shape of

Romeo wanting to die for Juliet and Juliet’s continual mourning of

Romeo after he has gone. It also brings to light Juliet’s

relationships with her mother and father, Lord and Lady Capulet and

even the Nurse as well.

I would set the play scene as it would have been during the time that

the play is set, similar to Franco Zefirelli’s interpretation of the

play, with a very Elizabethan atmosphere and dress code; neck-ruffs,

tunics, skin-tight trousers and all, making it as time-accurate as

possible so it really draws the audience in, making them feel involved

and making the play nearer to fact than fiction.

As before said, the era that Romeo and Juliet is set in is the

Elizabethan era, which, even though the Queen herself was a lady, was

an exceedingly patriarchal, male dominated, even hierarchal society

where women were very much dominated by men in general, and women

weren’t allowed or privileged to do certain things as well. One of

these things was acting, which would have made it quite difficult for

someone like William Shakespeare directing a play, having to suffice

with young boys as his female characters, due to their high voices,

which in my opinion would have been very hard to accomplish a serious

play from without making it look like a pantomime, but in those days