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  1. www.thoughtco.com › love-in-shakespeare-2985056The Recurrent Theme of Love in Shakespeare's Works - ThoughtCo

    • Lee Jamieson
    • Love in 'Romeo and Juliet' "​Romeo and Juliet"​ is widely regarded as the most famous love story ever written. Shakespeare’s treatment of love in this play is masterful, balancing different representations and burying them at the heart of the play.
    • Love in 'As You Like It' "As You Like It" is another Shakespeare play that positions love as a central theme. Effectively, this play pits different types of love against each other: romantic courtly love versus bawdy sexual love.
    • Love in 'Much Ado About Nothing' In "Much Ado About Nothing," Shakespeare once again pokes fun at the conventions of courtly love. In a similar device employed in As You Like It, Shakespeare pits two different types of lovers against each other.
    • Love in 'Sonnet 18': Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? is widely considered to be the greatest love poem ever written.

  2. www.folger.edu › blogs › shakespeare-and-beyondLove letters in Shakespeare: From Hamlet to As You Like It

    • As You Like It
    • Hamlet
    • The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    Orlando has been writing poems to his beloved Rosalind and hanging them on trees around the Forest of Arden. Ok, so they’re not love letters per se, but Rosalind (disguised as a man named Ganymede) does discover them and reads one aloud: Oh, that’s rough going. Work on your rhymes, Orlando. It’s a good thing that Rosalind has already fallen for him...

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    Hamlet is no novice when it comes to passionate language, as he proves in the love letter he writes to Ophelia. In this scene, Polonius is reading it aloud to Claudius and Gertrude. (That’s right. Ophelia has received a love letter from her boyfriend, and now her dad is reading that letter aloud to her boyfriend’s mother and uncle. How mortifying.)...

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    Let’s set the scene. Lucetta delivers a letter to her mistress, Julia, from an admirer, Proteus. Julia pretends that she doesn’t want to read the letter and rips it up. However, once Lucetta leaves, Julia scrambles to reassemble the letter and divine its contents. What other love letters can we find in Shakespeare’s plays?

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  4. www.filmeducation.org › secondary › ShakespeareInLoveSTUDY GUIDE - Film Education

    What reference to other Shakespeare plays do you recognise in each of the following? a) storylines b) characters c) language d) props (which you would normally associate with a certain Shakespeare play) 2. Draw up a flow chart of events in ‘Shakespeare in Love’ that relate directly to ‘Romeo and Juliet’. How

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  5. www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archiveShakespeare in Love, or in Context - The Atlantic

    Dec 1, 2004 · The only saints to which Shakespeare was sensible, on the evidence of his plays, were the saints of love: Romeo and Juliet call each other "saint," and compare kisses to biblical oaths.

  6. www.library.illinois.edu › shakespeare-in-loveShakespeare in Love - O put me in thy books!

    One of the earliest fictional portraits of Anne Hathaway and the first of several English works entitled Shakespeare in Love. Both Anne and William are idealized in the triple-decker tale of true love and sentimentality in Stratford.

  7. shakespeare-online.com › sonnets › treatmentloveShakespeare's Treatment of Love and Marriage

    No doubt Shakespeare's denouements, even in some of the maturest comedies, show his lovers accepting with a singular facility a fate in love other than that they had chosen. Olivia accepts Sebastian in default of Viola, and the Duke Viola when Olivia is out of the question.

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  9. www.kennedy-center.org › shakespeare-and-loveShakespeare and Love - The Kennedy Center

    And Romeo and Juliet were famously willing to give up their fortunes, families, and—ultimately—their lives for love. We’ll examine these characters and others as we look at the ways that love transforms Shakespeare’s characters.