ROMEO Y JULIETA
An attempt to relate the drama of Shakespeare and other derivatives from the same source, that of Lope de Vega (Castelvines and Monteses) and Adriana (1578) by Luigi Groto, containing phrases and images that are also found in Shakespeare's drama, but that they are only the Petrarchan commonplaces in addition, both dramas are
The Montagues and the Capulets, the two main families of Verona, are enemies. Romeo Montecchi old son attends a masked party at the Capulets and, once thought love with Rosaline, now finds his true passion is Juliet. After the party, young people are inflamed in mutual love. And, being under the window of Juliet, Romeo hears the night to confess her love for him, and obtained his consent to a secret marriage.
With the help of Friar Laurence married the next day. Mercutio, friend of Romeo, Tybalt lies, grandson of Mrs. Capulet, furious at having discovered the presence of Romeo at the party, Mercurio and Tybalt quarrel. Romeo intervenes, and the challenge of Tybalt responds with words that hide the new family relationship, and refuses to fight. Mercutio is indignant at such submission and drew his sword. Romeo tries in vain to separate the contenders, so getting time to give only to
He was condemned to exile and the next day, after having spent the night with Juliet, Verona leaves to go to Mantua, being urged by Brother Lorenzo, who understands that that is the right time to make their marriage public. Juliet, forced by her father to marry Count Paris and advised to do so even by his nurse, who had previously favored union with Romeo, be convinced by that Friar Laurence agrees, but drinking the night before the wedding a narcotic to make it seem dead for forty hours. The monk will take care of itself tell
Juliet puts into practice the advice. But the message does not reach Romeo because the monk to be delivered is arrested on suspicion of infection, but instead he received news of the death of Juliet. Buy from a chemist a powerful poison and goes to the tomb to see his beloved for the last time the entry is to Paris and kills him in a duel. Then, Romeo, after kissing Juliet one last time, drink the poison. Juliet regains consciousness and finds Romeo dead, with the cup still in hand. He realizes what happened and stabs. This tragic death is told by the priest (which came too late to stop) and the page to
Ha sido advertido muchas veces por los críticos que ésta no es una tragedia en el sentido que lo serán las grandes tragedias de Shakespeare, ya que no brota de los caracteres, sino que es debida a una fortuita combinación de circunstancias externas, hasta tal punto que en el siglo XVIII se pudo alterar el desenlace del drama haciéndolo feliz. No obstante, la concepción de Shakespeare resulta trágica por las mismas imágenes con que opera, ya que en ellas muestra su visión de la historia de los dos enamorados en su rápida y fatal belleza, casi
This view is projected on a background of artificial "Italianate" which is the same as the first plays of Shakespeare (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor Lost). Of all the Shakespearean drama, Romeo and Juliet is the most rich in metaphors, in the words of Romeo, even more than in Shakespeare's sonnets, we find the influence of conventional notions of the forerunners of the Baroque. But the artificiality, rather than being just a pleasant decoration, as in the plays of John Lyly and Robert Greene, makes a tone most pathetic human history that surrounds them, and anguish and death are no less real and moving to
A love story without end