Courtly love, entailing only loving someone of the right status, was shallow but held financial stability, power and fame, erotic love was physically and aesthetically pleasing but it's passion decayed with time. Romantic love was, and still is, the only immortal love as lovers loved the pers...

Act II: Scene 2 This is the famous "Balcony Scene," one of the most renowned in all of Shakespeare. But because of its romantic associations, it is often misunderstood. Romeo's passion for Juliet is unambiguously erotic. To Elizabethans sexual desire was not antithetical to romance; it was the es...