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Olivia Coulomb
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Olivia Coulomb
Teacher, Aix Marseille University, France ocoulomb@hotmail.com
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Abstract
This article focuses on the omnipresent religiosity that permeates Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). The film creates an unconventional combination of a dystopian world – where violence, love, wealth and Catholicism are closely intertwined – and keenly focuses on the Capulets’ and the Montagues’ troubling relationship with religion. Drawing on previous studies by critics such as Christopher Baker, James N. Loehlin and Alan Hager, this article deals, first, with the various ways in which Luhrmann shows transgressions of Catholic faith and practices; second, how his film transgresses the original source text in religious terms; and third, how these transgressions also relate to a spiritual journey towards reconciliation.
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Olivia Coulomb teaches English at Aix Marseille University. She has published on Shakespeare and early modern drama, including chapters in Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Italian Influence (2017) and The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts (2017). Her research interests include images, religion, guilt, shame, evil and the reception of visual arts in the Renaissance era. She has also participated in conferences focusing on Shakespeare, theatre, sculptures, masks and religions in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe. Email: ocoulomb@hotmail.com; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3048-0987.