Plants: Life and Death Dichotomy in Romeo and Juliet

Marnie Heenan

doi:10.24049/aq.1.1.5

Plants: Life and Death Dichotomy in Romeo and Juliet

Aquila The FGCU Student Research Journal ◽

10.24049/aq.1.1.5 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Marnie Heenan

Keyword(s):

Romeo And Juliet ◽

Life And Death

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If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones

Mobile Media & Communication ◽

10.1177/2050157912459505 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 166-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Barry Wellman ◽

Lee Rainie

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phones ◽

Personal Communication ◽

The Other ◽

Romeo And Juliet ◽

Life And Death ◽

Location Aware ◽

The Social ◽

True Love ◽

The Difference ◽

Networked Individualism

How did the absence of mobile phones affect the romantic life and death of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? The difference in their situation would have been part of the social change to networked individualism from group-based societies. The Mobile Revolution would have afforded personal communication rather than the household-centered communication of the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet would have been always available to each other, instead of wondering where the other might be. Location-aware apps would have plotted their whereabouts. The course of true love would have been more connected.

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Dying to Act

10.1093/oso/9780198867838.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 91-135

Author(s):

Pamela Allen Brown

Keyword(s):

Romeo And Juliet ◽

Life And Death ◽

Knowing That

Shakespeareans stereotype the comici as bawdy masked clowns, not knowing that leading Italian companies played prestigious tragedy as well as comedy and pastoral. The unmasked actress capable of stirring pathos and desire enabled them to change their repertory and their fortunes. Most Italian tragedies had female heroines, but they were long and static, so the diva set about cutting and adapting them; they also borrowed tragic stories from romance epics and the novella. They produced showpieces full of extreme passions, plangent laments, and violent words and deeds. This new style reached England and altered tragic playwriting in works by Marlowe, Marston, Webster, and others. Two groundbreaking roles—Bel-imperia in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, worlds apart in most ways—share the profile of the audacious, strong-willed, eloquent, and artful innamorata whose spectacular life and death reflect the unusual autonomy and theatrical brilliance of the tragic diva.

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