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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers’ is a well-known phrase from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.The Prologue’s description of Romeo and Juliet as ‘star-cross’d lovers’ has become one of the most emblematic phrases from the whole play, neatly encapsulating the doomed nature of their love affair from the outset.
Here we examine what ‘Star crossed lovers’ means, and the context of the phrase within the play. When the audience at the Globe Theatre was all ready and settled to watch Master Shakespeare’s new play, Romeo and Juliet, the stage manager came out and delivered the following sonnet as a prologue: Two households, both alike in dignity,
2 days ago · The Los Angeles Opera’s revival of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette dazzled in its opening performance last night, thanks to extraordinary vocal performances and masterful conducting. With Amina Edris and Duke Kim delivering passionate portrayals of the star-crossed lovers, and Domingo Hindoyan leading the orchestra in a lush, romantic interpretation of Gounod’s score, the evening was […]
Aug 18, 2019 · August 18, 2019 wordynerdbird. Just like ‘Wherefore art thou Romeo?”, this commonly misunderstood famous line comes ‘Romeo and Juliet’. I have witnessed so many people talking about Romeo and Juliet as “star-cross’d lovers” in the sense of their meeting and relationship being their destiny, and that the two were somehow fated to ...
Romeo and Juliet are "a case of bad luck" in Romeo and Juliet because in the first few lines of the prologue, the audience learns from the Chorus that the "star-cross'd" lovers, Romeo and Juliet ...
Jul 25, 2020 · Instead of the later tragedies of character Romeo and Juliet has been downgraded as a tragedy of chance, and, in the words of critic James Calderwood, the star-crossed lovers are “insufficiently endowed with complexity” to become tragic heroes. Instead “they become a study of victimage and sacrifice, not tragedy.”.
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Star-crossed lovers? An astrologer. Fate, Fortune, and the influence of the stars; how seriously did Shakespeare's audience take them? As in so many things, the plays offer a dynamic debate on the subject. There was certainly a widespread belief in astrology, though Shakespeare's own views, as usual, are impossible to pin down. Then there is ...
