Mortal Love
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Practice of Joint Burial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ramie Targoff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-38 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2012.120.1.17 |
| OpenAlex | W1991052126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay considers Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the context of early modern attitudes toward love after death. It argues that Shakespeare's rejection of the idea that Romeo and Juliet would share a heavenly afterlife-an idea that runs throughout his sources for the play-helped him to shape a new mode of tragic power, one that depended upon insisting that love is mortal
Afterlife · Archaeology · Art · Literature · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |