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Romeo and Juliet--A Parody
Summary:
Juliet Capulet is just your average teenage girl until a chance meeting at a community dance changes her life forever. She meets Romeo Montague, who immediately starts stalking her, claiming they are meant to be together. For Juliet, this is just too much; she calls the police. How did such a story inspire the great William Shakespeare? It's not how you think!
CarrieAnn13
Romeo and Juliet--A Parody
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Thanks, sorlageal! I honestly can't say I was inspired by Monty Python, because I've never watched any of those skits/movies. My actual inspiration for the tongue-in-cheek humour was Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Cat was Tybalt because when I read the play, in the margin there was a note about how 'Tybalt' was a another name for 'cat' when Shakespeare wrote the play.
Actually, I didn't leave them out. Shakespeare's inspiration for Mercutio and Benvolio was the two Cat fought against, Miranda and Betty.
And in my parody, no one opposes Romeo and Juliet being together, except for Juliet. This is because everyone opposes their union in the play. The Big Idea here was to see what would have happened if Romeo and Juliet had a chance to love openly. I think their love progressed so quickly in the play because it was forbidden.
Thanks for the comment, JoPepper! I apologize for not making it clear some sections were from Shakespeare's perspective, but this was my first submission. In the original format, those passages were in italics, but I guess that format got lost in the copying and pasting process.
I don't know how I was unclear about the timeline. At the end of my novel, I very clearly have it that Shakespeare takes Romeo back to Medieval London with him.
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