Shakespeare's Play: Romeo and Juliet, A Love Story
Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, a lovers' story with a tragic ending the chorus foretold from the prologue, has all the ingredients of a masterwork destines to show how the powerful features that only humans can display, pride and foolishness can destroy men, even withstanding passionate and pure love and good will. Shakespeare's play skillfully depicts the Italian society of Verona, painting with a master's hand and a few strokes all the social classes that were living at that time in the Italian city. The role of the servants in this play, like in many other of Shakespeare's plays is one the author intends to use as the voice that often judges his maters, blinded by their pride and quarrels and often acting foolishly. The wisdom of those who are supposed to be educated is sometimes put in contrast to the wisdom of those who despite their illiteracy, have not lost their common sense. The word "book" appears several times throughout the play, used by characters from different social backgrounds in different contexts. The first time a character uses it is in a dialogue between Romeo and a servant from the Capulet household, send by his master to invite some people to a supper at his house. The servant cannot read and asks f
The second time the word "book" is used in the play, it has an entirely different meaning. Juliet hears her mother describing the man her parents want her to marry, Paris, in a very poetic way: "LADY CAPULET: What say you? can you love the gentleman? / This night you shall behold him at our feast; / Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen; / Examine every married lineament, / And see how one another lends content / And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes. She is skillfully indicated what to actually read in the book she has to read, like an inexperienced schoolgirl under the careful guidance of a professor introducing her into the world of classics. / Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. From a contemporary analysis, it looks like play of words because today it is impossible to think about reading without a book in mind. The word is used in its literal meaning, but in the meaning accepted in the time the play was written. or Romeo's help to find out who those he is supposed to invite are written in the list: "Servant: Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I / pray, can you read any thing you see?"(Shakespeare, 1899, pg. / Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris! / What said my man, when my betossed soul / Did not attend him as we rode? I think / He told me Paris should have married Juliet: / Said he not so? or did I dream it so? / Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,/ To think it was so? O, give me thy hand, / One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! / I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave; / A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth, / For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes / This vault a feasting presence full of light.
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