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Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet

Pearce, Joseph

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CatholicismGeneral ChristianityShakespeare

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ISBN10: 1586176846
ISBN13: 9781586176846
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: Mar 28 2013
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.54 Depth: 7.68
Language: English
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Having given the evidence for William Shakespeare's Catholicism in two previous books, literary biographer Joseph Pearce turns his attention in this work to the Bard's most famous play, Romeo and Juliet.

Star-crossed Romeo and Juliet are Shakespeare's most famous lovers and perhaps the most well-known lovers in literary history. Though the young pair has been held up as a romantic ideal, the play is a tragedy, ending in death. What then, asks Pearce, is Shakespeare saying about his protagonists? Are they the hapless victims of fate, or are they partly to blame for their deaths? Is their love the real thing, or is it self-indulgent passion? And what about the adults in their lives? Did they give the young people the example and guidance that they needed?

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