Romeo and Juliet are two of the most famous lovers in history, but some people doubt that their historic love lives up to its reputation. Romeo starts the play infatuated with Rosaline, a gorgeous...
Love and hate are usually thought of as opposites, but in Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are two sides of the same coin, as two children from warring families (the Capulets and the Montague...
In the hormone-charged atmosphere of Romeo and Juliet, it seems that pretty much everything is about sex. A boy and girl from warring families fall in love, and their relationship is marked...
"Youth in this play is a separate nation," critic Frank Kermode wrote of Romeo and Juliet. In the play, the expectations of Romeo and Juliet’s warring parents come in conflict with you...
Romeo and Juliet’s love gains its power from the play’s constant reminders that life, love and beauty are ultimately transient. Romeo and thirteen-year-old Juliet fall in love at first...
Freud argued that human love was propelled by two opposing drives: eros, the desire for love, and thanatos, the desire for death. But centuries before Freud, Romeo and Juliet provided a very...
Machismo rules the day in Verona, the city where Romeo and Juliet takes place. Male honor –and male sexual posturing – are sources of both the play’s humor and its final tr...
What is the connection between love and beauty, beauty and death? At first the answer seems simple: love and beauty go together, and their enemy is death. But Romeo and Juliet complicates th...
Fate is the lovers’ enemy in Romeo and Juliet. From the opening lines of the play, we know that this is the story of "star-crossed lovers." When a boy and a girl from warring families...
Romeo and Juliet marry for love, a choice that is standard today. But in the Elizabethan world of the play, marriage for love, rather than money or social position, was a radical and dangerous choi...
The conflict between family and the individual is played out in the most extreme fashion possible in the play, as two children from warring families fall in love and have to choose between their fa...
"Wisely and slow – they stumble that run fast," a priest warns an impetuous young lover in Romeo and Juliet. But nobody spends much time pausing to think in Romeo and Juliet. Pa...
Romeo and Juliet is not a political work, and so in the play exile is a purely personal matter. Romeo and Juliet, the children of warring families, are carrying out a clandestine love affair...
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