I am so glad I found your articles! I am teaching R+J for the second time this year to high schoolers and wasn't thrilled with how it went last year, so I've been digging around trying to find some resources to help me and stumbled upon your Substack. LOVE your satire theory; it makes SO much sense. Am going to read all your R+J articles, and if you have suggestions for any other resources I'd love to know about them!
Thanks for helping me see aspects of R & J that I hadn't noticed before. I especially like the contrast that you make to the movies, as well as to the original story on which R & J is based. Your understanding of R & J makes me appreciate the play so much more.
Hi John, More great observations, thanks. I haven't read R+J for a long time, and clearly need to. The energy of the language in this play is intriguing. Along with the ideas that Sh. buried in the play which your close reading is illuminating. I appreciate your insights.
I really value this kind of very close, professional reading. I am adapting R&J to a novel/musical play/screenplay and like to study the craft and plot points, tropes, etc. I just skimmed this to pin and will study more closely. Just talked to 8th grader today who was also shocked at blood vengeance in R&J! This book has been helpful also -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786447486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Excellently laid out! A lesson today's Hollywood world could glean much insight from! Stop the romanticising of immature behavior! This cavalier, undermining attitude toward the necessity of developing mature personal and interrelational skills has resulted in broken individuals, broken families, and a broken culture. The extinction of great civilizations will be the grande finale, unless the scripts we follow become, once more, guides in the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.
I really value this kind of very close, professional reading. I am adapting R&J to a novel/musical play/screenplay and like to study the craft and plot points, tropes, etc. I just skimmed this to pin and will study more closely. Just talked to 8th grader today who was also shocked at blood vengeance in R&J! This book has been helpful also -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786447486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I am so glad I found your articles! I am teaching R+J for the second time this year to high schoolers and wasn't thrilled with how it went last year, so I've been digging around trying to find some resources to help me and stumbled upon your Substack. LOVE your satire theory; it makes SO much sense. Am going to read all your R+J articles, and if you have suggestions for any other resources I'd love to know about them!
Thanks very much, Alison! I'm so glad you found my Substack and am thrilled to have you as a subscriber. The video here gives an overview of some of my main ideas: https://johnmcgee.substack.com/p/self-hatred-the-true-cause-of-romeos
Thanks for helping me see aspects of R & J that I hadn't noticed before. I especially like the contrast that you make to the movies, as well as to the original story on which R & J is based. Your understanding of R & J makes me appreciate the play so much more.
Thank you, Trish! Very kind of you.
Hi John, More great observations, thanks. I haven't read R+J for a long time, and clearly need to. The energy of the language in this play is intriguing. Along with the ideas that Sh. buried in the play which your close reading is illuminating. I appreciate your insights.
Thanks, Keith! Appreciate that.
I really value this kind of very close, professional reading. I am adapting R&J to a novel/musical play/screenplay and like to study the craft and plot points, tropes, etc. I just skimmed this to pin and will study more closely. Just talked to 8th grader today who was also shocked at blood vengeance in R&J! This book has been helpful also -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786447486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks, Kevin!
verry good
Excellently laid out! A lesson today's Hollywood world could glean much insight from! Stop the romanticising of immature behavior! This cavalier, undermining attitude toward the necessity of developing mature personal and interrelational skills has resulted in broken individuals, broken families, and a broken culture. The extinction of great civilizations will be the grande finale, unless the scripts we follow become, once more, guides in the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.
I really value this kind of very close, professional reading. I am adapting R&J to a novel/musical play/screenplay and like to study the craft and plot points, tropes, etc. I just skimmed this to pin and will study more closely. Just talked to 8th grader today who was also shocked at blood vengeance in R&J! This book has been helpful also -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786447486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1