Juliet
Americannoun
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the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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(used in communications to represent the letterJ. )
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Also Juliette a female given name, form of Julia.
noun
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Russell Kane is due to make his theatre debut in a "striking new take" on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet later this year.
From BBC
Romeo and Juliet is being staged as a collaboration between the venue and theatre company Not Too Tame.
From BBC
“Romeo & Juliet Suite,” the site-specific production choreographed and directed by Benjamin Millepied, founder and director of L.A.
Other Shakespeare characters given musical attention by Prokofiev—such as the heads of the Capulet and Montague families, Juliet’s Nurse, Friar Lawrence and Paris—are not found here.
Other close-ups are less effective—for example, those fixed on the hands and arms of Romeo and Juliet for their “balcony” interlude, where their bare limbs interact in less-than-memorable choreographic configurations.
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