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THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 99 Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (1355–74) (Of the Fates of Famous Men). The subjects all ...
A PAIR OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS ROMEO AND JULIET (1595) ...
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102 T he chorus sets the scene as Verona, where two families feud. The play will last two hours, Chorus says, and tell the story ...
103 nurse agree to help them, hoping the union will end the feud. The next day in the street, Mercutio taunts Tybalt Capulet and ...
104 R omeo and Juliet is perhaps the most familiar of all Shakespeare’s plays: a tale of two young lovers, doomed to be kept apa ...
105 romantics, especially the young, the idea of love flying in the face of a cruel world is intoxicating. Origins of the story ...
106 ROMEO AND JULIET or two. Shakespeare’s story is faster, and this serves to heighten the tragic brevity of the romance. Shake ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 107 to be setting us up for the same cautionary tale of misbegotten love as appears in Brooke’s versi ...
108 ROMEO AND JULIET form of poem in 14 lines, which had originated with the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch. By the time Sha ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 109 Language of love Shakespeare finds a new language of love that has a freshness and immediacy that ...
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1595) ...
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112 I n Athens, Theseus is preparing for his wedding to Hippolyta, the vanquished queen of the Amazons, when in bursts Egeus com ...
113 that he falls in love Helena—but Puck mistakenly gives the juice to Lysander, who wakes and sees Helena and falls in love wi ...
114 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is unique in Shakespeare’s varied canon. Full of romance and poetry, humor and beauty, it is a fli ...
115 possibly the wedding of the young Elizabeth de Vere to the Earl of Derby in 1595. Others dispute this idea, but the play doe ...
116 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Parallels with Verona In some ways, the Athens of Theseus is as unhealthy as the feuding Verona th ...
117 Puck Mischievous fairy THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN really is, as Lysander, who once professed to love her, suddenly seems to ...
THERE IS NO SURE FOUNDATION SET ON BLOOD THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN (1596) ...
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