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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Description: Two households (Baz Lurhmann & 20th Century Fox), both alike in dignity,In fair Verona (Australia / Hollywood), where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge (Strictly Ballroom was a huge success) break to new mutiny, (mutiny = partnership)Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. (there was no blood that I'm aware of)From forth the fatal loins of these two foes (they decided to collaborate, non-fatally)A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; (They made Romeo + Juliet, which is a tragedy)Whose misadventured piteous overthrows (Kidnappings, il...