What language is Romeo and Juliet written?

Answer 1

First of all, he is talkative. He loves to talk, to play with words, or just to babble. Consider his Queen Mab Speech. It goes on and on, but has nothing to do with anything Mercutio and his friends are doing, and is in fact just a fantasy. As Romeo says, he is talking about nothing. But at great length. Act 2 Scene 4 shows Mercutio at his most playful with language, making fun of the "antick, lisping, affecting fantasticoes, these new tuners of accents" who go in for artificial and fashionable language. Of course he himself goes in for artificial and fashionable language, and wordplay. Just check out the "Old hare hoar" song he sings to the nurse. Which leads to another aspect of Mercutio's language: that it is almost always filthy; when he uses the word "hoar" you know that the word "whore" is not far from his thought. Some of his most obscene dialogue is in Act 2 Scene 1, where the word "open-arse" has been censored from the text for centuries and replaced with a vague "etc."

Answer 2

It is written in Renaissance English, but in an especially heightened, poetic and artificial style. The dialogue is usually in iambic pentameter rhythm, it sometimes rhymes and at one point becomes the extremely artificial poetic style the Sonnet. It's crammed with metaphors and similes and personifications and apostrophes and Classical Allusions.

Answer 3

"Romeo and Juliet" is written in English by William Shakespeare.

Answer 4

English in some places....but mostly English....well, almost all in English. Apart from the friar saying "Benedicite" it's English.

Answer 5

English. Of course, it's a much more florid and poetic kind of English (heightened is one word for it) than the kind we are accustomed to reading or hearing.

Answer 6

It is called a tragic romance.

Answer 7

Mostly Elizabethan English

Answer 8

british