History Film / Rosaline

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Rosalind's Nurse is always referred to as "Nurse" which causes some to believe that's just her given name. She annoyingly replies that her actual name is Janet.

* ShoutOut: Dario has a few while describing love: "[[Literature/TheBible Love is patient. Love is kind.]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}} Love is an open door.]] [[Music/TheBeatles Love is all you need.]]"

* SpiritedYoungLady: Rosaline is an nobleman's daughter who has ambitions to become a cartographer, unlike her more ladylike cousin Juliet.

A 2022 American historical RomanticComedy directed by Creator/KarenMaine. It is based on the novel ''Literature/WhenYouWereMine'', itself a retelling of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Unlike the HighSchoolAU book, however, the film moves the setting back to the original's Renaissance Italy, but keeps most of the book's modern sensibilities, including deliberately anachronistic dialogue and [[AnachronisticSoundtrack music]].

->''"Romeo and...Rosaline. Does have a nice ring to it."''

''Rosaline'' is a 2022 historical RomanticComedy directed by Creator/KarenMaine. It is based on the novel ''Literature/WhenYouWereMine'', but moves the story back to the Renaissance Italy of the source material...specifically, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.

The film retells the play from the perspective of one of its most tertiary characters: Rosaline (Creator/KaitlynDever), Juliet's cousin. After her love Romeo (Creator/KyleAllen) moves on to her younger, wealthier cousin Juliet (Creator/IsabelaMerced), Rosaline schemes to get him back. It also takes some plot elements from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', particularly by casting Rosaline as a haughty and difficult marriage prospect in contrast to the sweeter Juliet, and features her developing attraction to a rugged suitor, Dario (Creator/SeanTeale).

The film debuted on Creator/{{Hulu}} on October 14, 2022.

* CompositeCharacter: Rosaline is a combination of her namesake (Romeo's first Capulet love) and Prince Escalus, who tells the FeudingFamilies off at the end. The plot also takes some elements from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and Rosaline fills the Katherina role, as an independent and shrewish older sister figure.

* RomanticFalseLead: Rosaline dates Romeo at the start and spends the first half trying to get him to stay with her, but realizes later on that she doesn't really love him, and ends the film [[spoiler:with Dario]].

* CoolBigSis: Lampshaded by Rosaline, who writes that she aims to be the older, more accomplished, worldlier older sister figure to her cousin Juliet. The montage that accompanies this shows that Juliet is more charming and more accomplished, but Rosaline is still worldlier.

* CoolBigSis: Lampshaded by Rosaline, who writes that she aims to be the older, more accomplished, worldlier older sister figure to Juliet. The montage that accompanies this shows that Juliet is more charming and more accomplished, but Rosaline is still worldlier.

* CoolBigSis: Lampshaded by Rosaline, who writes that she aims to be the older, more accomplished, worldlier older sister figure to Juliet. The montage that accompanies this shows that Juliet is more charming and more accomplished, but Rosaline is still worldlier..

* DistractedByTheSexy: Rosaline tries to plead with Dario to help her fix things, but can't eloquently do so because he's not wearing a hisrt.
* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: The film opens with Romeo wooing Rosaline in the Shakespearean verse of the source material, only for her to question why he's talking like that. The rest of the characters speak in 21st-century English for the most part.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike in the play, [[spoiler:Paris, Romeo and Juliet survive, since Rosaline and Dario's intervention means the FakingTheDead somehow works.]]

The film retells the play from the perspective of one of its most tertiary characters: Rosaline (Creator/KaitlynDever), Juliet's cousin. After her love Romeo (Creator/KyleAllen) moves on to her younger, prettier cousin Juliet (Creator/IsabelaMerced), Rosaline schemes to try and get him back. It also takes some plot elements from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', specifically Rosaline's personality as spirited, haughty and a difficult marriage prospect unlike the ingenue-like Juliet, and her developing attraction to a rugged suitor, Dario (Creator/SeanTeale).

The film retells the play from the perspective of one of its most tertiary characters: Rosaline (Creator/KaitlynDever), Juliet's cousin. After her love Romeo (Creator/KyleAllen) moves on to her younger, prettier cousin Juliet (Creator/IsabellaMerced), Rosaline schemes to try and get him back. It also takes some plot elements from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', specifically Rosaline's personality as spirited, haughty and a difficult marriage prospect unlike the ingenue-like Juliet, and her developing attraction to a rugged suitor, Dario (Creator/SeanTeale).

* CompositeCharacter: Rosaline is a combination of her namesake (Romeo's first Capulet love) and Prince Escalus, who tells the FeudingFamilies off at the end. The plot also takes som elements from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and Rosaline fills the Katherina role, as an independent and shrewish older sister figure * CopycatMockery: Tybalt throws a peacemaking line back in Romeo's face.