
Romeo and Juliet
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Some and Night's Dream
Comedy tends to see the young, young win out or supersede their elders. They're disapproving parents in Romeo and Juliet take up archetypal roles of blocking figures. Accusio's death is often cited as the point at which the play stops being a comedy and turns inexorably towards tragedy. Both lovers must leave aside their comic companions, the nurse and Accusio, and enter that lonely world that is the precursor of tragedy. So, this is a tragedy built a Snyder would have it on a comic matrix. It might look as if this could all turn out well, but you've already heard that it won't.
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