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Romeo and Juliet

Approaching Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet Is a Play That Can't Wait

Shakespeare isn't a juvenile writing this play, it's probably about 30. The is new to the theatre relative to speaking and he is writing about very young people. Lots of elements of this play are about being premature, about coming too soon. This is a play with a kind of structural premature ejaculation. Consumation is too quick, wrongly placed. Actually having sex in Shakespeare's plays is pretty faithful.

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