The influences behind The Last Days of Disco

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   c. 1595 (printed 1597)

   Romeo and Juliet

   William Shakespeare

   Elizabethan. England. Written in English.

   Tragedy of two young lovers from feuding Veronese families.

   What it handed down

   To West Side Story (1961)

   Direct source, well documented.

   Jerome Robbins conceived the musical as a modern Romeo and Juliet, and the film follows Shakespeare's plot closely: feuding gangs for feuding houses, the balcony scene on a fire escape, and a fatal message gone wrong.

   Where it came from

   • The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, Arthur Brooke 1562
   • Metamorphoses, Ovid c. 8 CE follow this thread

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