Romeo and Juliet defy their parents to marry one another. Romeo even defies the law of the land, to return to Juliet, and Juliet defies her father's will when he tells her to marry Paris. The Italian couple's loyalty to one another, to the passions they feel overrides family, country, and kin.
Bonnie and Clyde's devotion to one another was similarly unswerving: "It is said that Bonnie never killed anyone....she apparently justified her criminal activities because she did not want to leave her man's side. She would stay with him no matter what -- even though it meant the death of nine police officers" (Rosa, 2007). True, "Bonnie was a gum-chewing waitress and Clyde was a two-bit hood out on parole," Bonnie was not the daughter of a wealthy patriarch like Capulet nor was Clyde the son of a well-connected family like the Montagues (Ebert, 1967). This hardly gels with the beautiful, romantic image that many people have of "Romeo and Juliet." Yet the romanticizing of "Romeo and Juliet" in popular culture makes transposing of the tale of the star-crossed lovers even more important to an unromantic, more familiar era.
Consider that Shakespeare's play begins and ends with the young expressing their anger at society though violence. The play begins with the Montague and Capulet servants arguing, and ends with a bloody confrontation in a tomb, followed by the two lovers' suicide. Although Shakespearean love may be beautiful, especially love forged out of passion and the laws of a society that denies the freedoms of the young, it is not the society of Renaissance Italy that is beautiful and romantic. The fact that love can exist even in an atmosphere that a modern audience can identify as hopeless, crime-ridden, and decadent like Depression-era America will underline the most important aspect of Shakespeare's play, elements that might remain hidden in a production set in the Renaissance. Adult society...
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