"Star-crossed ""Star-crossed"" or ""star-crossed lovers"" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being ""thwarted by a malign star"" or that the stars are working against the relationship. Astrological in origin, the phrase stems from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play ""Romeo and Juliet"" by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Such pairings are often said to be doomed from the start. The phrase was coined in the prologue"
"their meeting would be unlikely. Rosaline thus acts as the impetus to bring the ""star-cross'd lovers"" to their deaths—she is crucial in shaping their fate (a common theme of the play). Ironically, she remains oblivious of her role. Literary critics often compare Romeo's love for Rosaline with his feelings for Juliet. Some see Romeo's supposed love for Rosaline as childish as compared with his true love for Juliet. Others argue that the apparent difference in Romeo's feelings shows Shakespeare's improving skill. Since Shakespeare is thought to have written early drafts of the play in 1591, and then picked them up"
"Shakespeare. Most of Shakespeare's romance plays appeared late in his life and include plays such as ""The Tempest"" and ""Cymbeline"". ""Comedy"", in its Elizabethan usage, had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Patterns in the comedies include movement to a ""green world"", both internal and external conflicts, and a tension between Apollonian and Dionysian values. Shakespeare's use of comedy and characters of comedic value was not limited to his"
"Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre""; ""Cymbeline""; ""The Winter's Tale""; and ""The Tempest"". ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping. The term ""romances"" was first used for these late works in Edward Dowden's ""Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art"" (1875). Later writers have generally been content to adopt Dowden's term. Shakespeare's plays cannot be precisely dated, but it is generally agreed that these comedies followed a series of tragedies including"
"There were two rival car and robot companies, which racer Robio falls in love with Robiette of the rival company. At the end the two young lovers get smooshed together by both their fathers driving into each other, and after that they two rivals give up the fight, and Astro remarks that now Robio and Robiette will be together forever. The success of the 1957 stage musical ""West Side Story"" was instrumental in making Shakespeare a presence in modern popular and youth culture. The book was written by Arthur Laurents, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and"
"Sonnet 33 Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet is the first of what are sometimes called the estrangement sonnets, numbers 33–36: poems concerned with the speaker's response to an unspecified ""sensual fault"" mentioned in (35) committed by his beloved. Nicolaus Delius notes thematic and stylistic parallels to the last scene of ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"". George Steevens and Edward Dowden were among the first to group"
"Hathaway forces Shakespeare to abandon her. The image of his lost love haunts Shakespeare throughout his life. He leaves for London to become a front man for Christopher Marlowe's playwriting. He eventually finds a new love who is the mirror image of Whateley. Laurie Lawlor's novel ""The Two Loves of Will Shakespeare"" (2006) depicts a teenage Shakespeare who seduces willing girls with his wit and charm. He is asked by his friend Richard Field to help him woo the beautiful and devout Anne Whateley, but falls in love with her himself. He tries to reform his ways to become worthy"
"feature broader characters, larger spectacles and a different handling of the themes of appearance and reality. The late romances differed from early Shakespearean comedies by relying on grand themes, rather than specific moments. The romances are Shakespearean tragedies that end happily, instead of a moment of danger that moves rapidly to a solution. They also focus on the relationships between father and daughter. The final plays share some common traits: Shakespeare's romances were also influenced by two major developments in theatre in the early years of the seventeenth century. The first was the innovation of tragicomedy initiated by John Fletcher"
"It."" The middle grouping of Shakespeare's plays begins in 1599 with ""Julius Caesar."" For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including ""Macbeth,"" ""Hamlet,"" and ""King Lear."" The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare's late romances, include ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"", ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's Tale"" and ""The Tempest"". The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline"
"the coincidence that, despite their having been born only two months apart, the first time the name William Shakespeare is known to have been connected with any literary work whatsoever was with the publication of ""Venus and Adonis"" just a week or two after the apparent death of Marlowe. The argument against this is that Marlowe's death was accepted as genuine by sixteen jurors at an inquest held by the Queen's personal coroner, that everyone apparently thought that he was dead at the time, and that there is a complete lack of direct evidence supporting his survival beyond 1593. While"
"superimposes contradictory characterizations in order to make his dramatic characters interesting and currently accessible to the contemporary audience Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida () is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years ""stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate"". Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom,"
"Heights"", considered to be one of the greatest love stories in literary works, is a tale of all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between the star-crossed Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. Lancelot, a trusted knight of King Arthur's Round Table, and Guinevere, the queen of Camelot and wife of Arthur, were involved in a star-crossed affair. In some versions of the tale, she is instantly smitten, and when they consummate their adulterous passion, it is an act which paves the way for the fall of Camelot and Arthur's death."
"of the protagonists, and ending with their tragic deaths. The conceit of dramatising Shakespeare writing Romeo and Juliet has been used several times. The oddball 1944 B-movie ""Time Flies"" features the comedy duo Susie and Bill Barton, who, time travelling, encounter a Shakespeare struggling for words for his balcony scene, which Susie (Evelyn Dall) supplies from memory, while Bill interrupts with quips. John Madden's 1998 ""Shakespeare in Love"" depicts Shakespeare's process in composing ""Romeo and Juliet"" against the backdrop of his own doomed love affair. Writers Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard exploited another commonplace of Shakespeare-related films, which scholar Tony"
"Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida () is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years ""stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate"". Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to"
"two months after the wedding to answer charges of ""carnal copulation"" with a Margaret Wheeler, who died in childbirth. Scholars believe that as a result of these events William Shakespeare altered his will to favour his other daughter, Susanna Hall, and excluded Quiney from his inheritance. Judith and Thomas had three children: Shakespeare, Richard, and Thomas. Shakespeare Quiney died at six months of age, and neither Richard nor Thomas lived past 21. The death of Judith's last child led to legal wrangling over William Shakespeare's will that lasted until 1652. Scholars speculate that Thomas Quiney may have died in 1662"
"her eye,<br> If poor Love shall live or die."" ""Two On A Tower"" is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is eight years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart. This is Hardy's most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age"
"love of Eglamour and Christabel, though presented as classical courtly love, ends in marriage and children -- a deviation from the original formulation of courtly love that grew common in romances of this era. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a Canterbury tale about a young lady, Constance, who alone survives a massacre only to be put into an open boat and set adrift upon the sea. Chaucer told this story as the Man of Law's Tale in the late-14th century, and his tale of the setting-adrift of Constance in an open boat derives from an earlier, Latin version. The Middle English Breton"
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"". They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. The characters were revived in W. S. Gilbert's satire, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"", and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"", which was adapted into a film. ""Rosencrantz"" (""rosary"") and ""Gyldenstjerne/Gyllenstierna"" (""golden star"") were names of Danish (and Norwegian, and Swedish) noble families of the 16th century; records of the Danish royal coronation of"
"Hamnet Shakespeare Hamnet Shakespeare (baptised 2 February 1585 – buried 11 August 1596) was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. He died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play ""Hamlet"", as well as on possible connections between Hamnet's death and the writing of ""King John"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Julius Caesar"", and ""Twelfth Night"". Little is known about Hamnet. Hamnet and his twin sister Judith were born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised on 2 February 1585 in Holy Trinity Church"
"Howard's ""The English Mounsieur"" (1663/1674), George Etherege's ""Comical Revenge: or, Love in a Tub"" (1664), John Dryden's ""An Evening's Love: or, The Mock Astrologer"" (1667), and William Wycherley's ""Love in a Wood"" (1671). Although tragicomedies generally do not feature heroic characters in epic-like situations, they uphold class distinctions, social hierarchies, and aristocratic values in the high plots. In ""The Mulberry-Garden"", Sedley created a heroic high plot in which the two couples are facing a sea of troubles hindering their love, and the marriages of Althea and Eugenio and Diana and Philander are finally brought about only by the device of"
"in the recent concern for the construction of a Canadian-ness, embodied by Billie's father, Canada. According to Louise Harrington, the play relates to the movement of emancipation from English literature by adapting Shakespeare in a more political and contemporary way. ""Harlem Duet"" is an offshoot of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. The plot revolves around the interracial marriage; the characters are named after Shakespeare’s characters: Othello and Desdemona (Mona in the present days and Miss Dessy in 1860). ""Harlem Duet"" is set in a time period immediately before Othello as a prequel to Shakespeare's play, and the curse Billie puts on"
"the decades in various forms. And ….they have an interesting history. The question some writers have asked is “why?”. Some of the reasons suggested for this genre’s macabre popularity are: Teenagers meeting with tragedy in song was not new in the 1950s (or for that matter in the 1650s, around the time ""Barbara Allen"" was popular). In literature, it has been a recurring and resonant theme over centuries, most notably in William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"". Another early example in song is ""Oh My Darling, Clementine"", published in 1884 but based on earlier songs and apparently written as a parody."
"that she is a Princess, and they run away to marry. They land in Bohemia, where Pandosto unwittingly falls in love with his daughter Fawnia. At the end of the story, after Fawnia's identity is revealed, Pandosto commits suicide out of grief for the troubles he caused his family. Shakespeare reversed the two kingdoms of Sicilia and Bohemia and added side characters like Paulina and Antigonus. Also he introduced Autolycus and the Clown. He also removed the suicide and added a resurrection scene, bringing the queen back to life using either magic or a death trick, depending on perception. Shakespeare"
"did similar work with these sources in ""Othello"", ""Julius Caesar"", and ""Coriolanus"". ""Antony and Cleopatra"" was never intended to be a tragedy; instead, Shakespeare gave the illusion of the tragedy as the two protagonists set out to become the heroes of the play and neither succeeded. Antony and Cleopatra are seen to have a passionate love for each other up till their demise as both are seen ending their lives for the other. Although the couple was seen as a pair that could not live without the other, it does not take much to be able to point out that"
"affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. Although it is unlikely that Shakespeare directly borrowed from Ovid while writing ""Romeo and Juliet"", the story was likely an influence on the Italian writers whom the playwright was greatly indebted to. The two sources which Shakespeare most likely consulted are Brooke's translation of de Porta and William Painter's ""The goodly historye of the true, and constant Love between Romeo and Juliet"". ""Romeo and Juliet"" has been adapted into film several times, and the part of Romeo has been played"
"and ""2"", and ""Henry V"". This period begins and ends with two tragedies: ""Romeo and Juliet"", and ""Julius Caesar"", based on Sir Thomas North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's ""Parallel Lives"", which introduced a new kind of drama. Shakespeare's career continued into the Jacobean period, and in the early 17th century Shakespeare wrote the so-called ""problem plays"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""All's Well That Ends Well"", as well as a number of his best known tragedies, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Macbeth"", ""King Lear"" and ""Anthony and Cleopatra"". The plots of Shakespeare's tragedies often hinge on such fatal errors or"
"Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with"
"Romeo Romeo Montague is the protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy, ""The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"". The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest named Friar Laurence. Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel, Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death. The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano's ""Il Novellino"" (1476)."
"age and the suicide; the suicide’s choice of method; and gender and suicide.’ Kevin Grauke stated that suicide serves an ""ambivalent rhetorical function"" in the works of the nineteenth-century. Authors such as Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, and Virginia Woolf include themes of suicide in their writing. William Shakespeare's characters commit suicide in several of his plays. Perhaps most famously, the young lovers Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide in the final scene of ""Romeo and Juliet"". Suicide also occurs in ""Julius Caesar"" when Brutus and Cassius both kill themselves. Othello commits suicide with a dagger after murdering his love in"
"Hathaway on the day of her husband's funeral. Avril Rowland's ""Mrs Shakespeare"" (2005) depicts Anne as a multi-tasking ""superwoman"" who runs the home efficiently while also writing her husband's plays in a businesslike partnership with him as her promoter/performer. The romantic comedy film ""Shakespeare in Love"" provides an example of the negative view, depicting the marriage as a cold and loveless bond that Shakespeare must escape to find love in London. The same situation occurs in the alternate-history novel ""Ruled Britannia"" (2002), in which Shakespeare is finally granted a divorce from Hathaway to marry his new girlfriend after he helps"
"by several actors, including: Romeo Romeo Montague is the protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy, ""The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"". The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest named Friar Laurence. Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel, Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death. The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio"
"of inter-gang wars and inter-cultural conflict. During a 1995 interview, Shakur said: […] I love Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories, man. I mean look at ""Romeo and Juliet"". That's some serious ghetto shit. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs is against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff. And look how Shakespeare busts it up with ""Macbeth"". He creates a tale about this king's wife who convinces a happy man to"
"for this. Six months after the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Susanna. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later. Stephen Greenblatt argues that Shakespeare probably initially loved Hathaway, supporting this by referring to the theory that a passage in one of his sonnets (Sonnet 145) plays off Anne Hathaway's name, saying she saved his life (writing ""I hate from hate away she threw/And saved my life, saying 'not you.'""). Nevertheless, after only three years of marriage Shakespeare left his family and moved to London. Greenblatt suggests that this may imply that he felt trapped"