Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Around 1595, William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. We know it as the greatest love story of the stage. It is also a savage attack on inherited hatred between rival families. The two lovers do not die of bad luck alone: they pay for a city unable to protect its young from the violence of its clans.
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- 2Shakespeare's alchemy: from novella to drama
- 3A tragic machine: between chance and necessity
- 4Social responsibility and the sacrifice of the young
- 5A universal afterlife: from lyric poetry to modern gangs
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