I mentioned a few days ago that Romeo and Juliet have hardly featured on the site so far, despite Shakespeare making up about 25% of the content …
This week’s delve into the archives continues to help make up the oversight, I hope.
It’s eight years since my read-through reached the play, and with my sympathy firmly forJuliet, I spent some time thinking about the ways in which she’s treated as a pawn in arrangements between men. I found Lord Capulet’s motives a bit opaque, and came to the slightly startling realisation that Paris and Juliet saw each other for the first time at that fateful party …
Why did I call it a ‘meat-market’ back then? Here’s the link:
Join the conversation: which male character in the play – apart from, maybe, Benvolio – comes out of the play with the most credit? Why?
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