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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1590s) - Coggle Diagram
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
(1590s)
What does reading for humours and fluids do to this text?
Using 1.1 and specific lines, evidence, stage directions--what does reading for humours/medicine/heat illuminate about the scene?
Blood stuffs
"choler" anger due to blood (four humours); gives medical-social acceptance to men out of control of themselves (early modern boys will be early modern boys); bio-essentialism
Heat
gender performances/mas: "Therefore, I will push Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall" (16).
"ITis all one. I will show myself a tyrant" (
Why frontload SEXUAL violence? It's a powershow.
the violent masculinity helps offset Romeo as a softer form of "man" and a
Prince's speech: straight up calls them "beasts" (hinting that this unsustainable masculinity is not working or good)
What's your favorite/trashiest R&J modern reference/adaptation?
leo dicap Romeo + Juliet; Gnomeo and Juliet; Douglas Booth and Haillee Steinfield version???; the guy that looks like Efron from the 1968; Westside Story; Taylor Swift's Love Story; Twilight New Moon; Warm Bodies;
These Violent Delights
; Shakespeare in Love; iCarly?
statement piece of "true love" and the paradigmatic idea of "love"; we "know" this is about love. "Star-crossed lovers" (but is it a misdirect?); EXTREME passion and love at first sight/die for love (uh oh, is this the stereotype for heterosexual passion and love)'; fantasize the forbidden...
How is love framed?
"heavy lightness" (178)--love is contradictions? this is very Astrophil adjacent.
marriage markets and heirs (Capulet's investment) patrilineality (hopeful lady of my earth" 1.2.15)
flash forward to Capulet's violent panic about capital management in the marriage market (3.5)
what's "queer" about virginity? If "woman" means penetrated and owned by man in marriage market, then virginity is an opt out?
Friar Lawrence's warnings: heat and neurodiversity (2.3 and 2.6)
"these hot days, is the mad blood stirring" (3.1.4):
The man fight scene (3.1)
"I will budge for no man's pleasure" and then Romeo ironically enters??? (
the PUBLIC jokes about male-male intimacies and same-sex sex acts (consort jokes, the
"Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, / And in my temper softened valor's steel" (113/4). with his lack of sword, it shows us a "lack" or missing aggro;