
Romeo and Juliet
Approaching Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's early plays are often discussed in terms of belatedness. Maybe we could use that same chronological model to his early plays as being about earlyness or about something premature, something that doesn't yet have the chance to develop. The great rhetorical term which is called histeron, protoron. We name it the preposterous. As he said, my dame that bred me up and bear me in her womb,. whereas the bearing is before the bringing up.
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