Name: Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I
Uploaded: 2012-12-20T18:17:30.000Z
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and THIS is Romeo and Juliet, [Roliet? Julmeo?]

written in 1595 or 1596 and often called the greatest love story of all time.

[even though ages & events therein would now translate to a long prison sentence.]

is a very strange thing to say about a play that features, like,

one off-stage sex scene and like seven on-stage fatalities.

Boy, Romeo, goes to a party trying to get over a girl,

but then he meets another girl, Juliet, and becomes obsessed with her.

but despite that or possibly because of it they fall madly in love and get married

the next day whereupon immediately a family feud breaks out.

not that kind of family feud. [survey says... YES!]

Yes, that kind. [thanks for the buzzer kill, John]

including Juliet's cousin, who is offed by Romeo.

[think how awkward the holidays would've been have they lived. yikes]

Juliet takes a sleeping potion to avoid another marriage.

And then Romeo comes back, finds her sleeping,

thinks she's dead, kills himself. And then, she wakes up and kills herself.

And then the families end the feud. Yay. [no wonder Disney hasn't coopted R&J yet]

That we consider this romance says quite a lot about humans.

but they love each other so much, you know?

It's like his life literally isn't worth living without her.

her being a [13 year old] woman that he's known for, like, a few hundred...hours.

thousands of people write to Juliet care of her hometown of Verona, Italy,

will go to Verona and visit all the touristy Romeo and Juliet sites,

and that very night you will be at a Veronese night club

and you will meet a girl named Antonia, and you will believe that

you really love her and that it is the kind of love that can last a lifetime.

No, at the end of the night, you lean in to kiss her like...

So Shakespeare didn't invent the story of Romeo and Juliet,

but he made really important changes to it.

His immediate source material was a 3,000 line narrative poem called

The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written by Arthur Brooke in 1562,

which itself borrowed from a tradition of tragic romances

dating back at least to Ovid's Metamorphosis.

So Shakespeare obviously changed some of the names but more importantly, he

introduced a lot of narrative complexity.

I mean, for Brooke, the story of Romeus and Juliet was a cautionary tale.

"A couple of unfortunate lovers, thrilling themselves to unhonest desire,

neglecting the authority and advice of parents and friends...,

attempting all adventures of peril for the attaining of their wished lust...

abusing the honourable name of lawful marriage."

So, Brooke's poem is just an ordinary story about naughty teenagers

who receive the standard punishment for their naughtiness,

[personally, I prefer the modern horror flick adaptation of this theme]

And, of course, as you know from watching contemporary horror movies:

if you're a woman and you wanna live til the end, you better be a virgin.

[also helps to be Jamie Lee Curtis or Heather Langencamp]

But Shakespeare offers a much more compassionate portrait of Romeo & Juliet

and encourages us to empathize with them.

I mean, Romeo and Juliet are obviously hot for each other,

but they're also kind of polite about it.

I mean, witness the physical distance between them in their most amorous scene.

I mean, their most amorous on-stage scene.

I mean, obviously, they d-- they do do it. [i love the term "circumlocution"]

And they use the kind of sacred metaphors

that etiquette experts in Shakespeare's day recommended for courtship.

I mean, Romeo calls Juliet a "holy shrine;"

and then Juliet welcomes the flirtation by calling him a "good pilgrim."

Also, Shakespeare's Juliet is much younger:

She's 16 or 18 in other versions of the story, but in Shakespeare, she's only 13,

and so it's hard to see her as, like, a dishonest floozy.

[anyone else love it when NYT bestseller Green says things like floozy? bet yes.]

I mean, even in a profoundly misogynistic age,

it's hard to see a 13-year-old stab herself and be like,

So, Shakespeare was also likely influenced by the love poems of Petrarch,

Petrarch's work is much more approving of intense adoration than Brooke's is.

For instance, he believed in of love at first sight.

And he had to because all of his poems were written to a woman he never met,

But then the play also isn't, like, a YOLO endorsement of following your heart

because following your heart does get Romeo and Juliet dead.

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