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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1590s) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - is this love or about "intensity"
    - - the dangers of idolizing and mythologizing the story in service of heteronormativity; reproduces dangerous myths of who chases and who doesn't, the reification of "hetero love" as the ideal
- - - - 3 times disturbed
      - pointless cycles of violence. "Ancient grudge" like gurl, what?
      - hot blood is bad (the prince's monologue about "peurple fountains issuing from your veins" (1.1.85). It also suggests not ending the violence, only shifting it's terms.
- - - - Capulet's patriarhcal freak out (3.5.127-) leaky vessel wet imagery (crying and the ships), exposes how marriage is about the patriarch--women as useful for patrilineal thinking. "baggage" and "wench" and objectifying language. If masculinity means having a future sustained by other men (male heirs), then this is the crisis here. "Hurdle" materially threatens with criminality, traitor, and public display of traitor/spectacle
        
        the stagecraft (the bed in the discovery space) while people are deciding her future; creates a dramatic irony about how women are both central but made marginal to decisions about politicla orgzanizations (4.3-4.5)
        
        "Hath Death lauin with thy wife. There she lies, /
        
        the creation of a statue and