Romeo and Juliet - Act 1

Act 1 was exactly what I thought it would be. I didn’t know the plot, or what would happen in the beginning, but the style of writing and poetic elements and puns and language reminded me a lot of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” (the one work of Shakespeare I enjoy). So far the plot and characters are fairly straightforward, unlike “Taming of the Shrew” and “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” where they introduce so many characters at once for a brief period of time. I don’t really agree that Romeo actually likes Juliet. He seems pretty shallow and kind of lame. I think that later on he will actually start to love her, because it gets pretty serious from what I know and have heard that they actually kill themselves for each other. The puns in this story are also very dry because they are placed in times way before us, by almost 500 years. The wordplay is kind of interesting, how he uses the word in many different forms to mean different things, or 3 or 4 different words that all sound the same, or when he used the word sir over and over. It adds a little bit of excitement, if that’s what you would call it.