Abstract
The four books that form the focus of this study all demonstrate the extent to which culturally elite ideas about romantic love were spreading to a broader reading public throughout the sixteenth century. Conduct books, philosophical treatises, letter-writing manuals, and medical texts were all appearing in the vernacular, and their specialized knowledge was being made even more accessible through editorial apparatus such as indices, detailed tables of contents, and printed marginal annotations.
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On the play’s popularity on stage see William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, The Oxford Shakespeare, ed. Jill. L. Levenson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 69–70.
The Capulets are one of the only households Shakespeare stages in which a child has both parents living. And Juliet’s mother and father are not necessarily a model of wedded bliss. See Sasha Roberts, William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Plymouth, UK: Northcote House, 1998), 28–31.
Matteo Bandello, Novelle, ed. Luigi Russo and Ettore Mazzali (Milan: Rizzoli, 1990), 315: “… con particolar dolore dei Montecchi e Capelletti e general di tutta la città, furono fatte l’essequie con pompa gradissima; e volle il signore che in quello stesso avello gli amanti restarono sepolti. Il che fu cagione che tra i Montecchi e I Capelletti si fece la pace, ben che non molto dopo durassi.”
Plato, Symposium, ed. Kenneth Dover, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 204c.
Unless otherwise indicated, all references to the works of Plato are to The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961).
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Moulton, I.F. (2014). Conclusion: Romeo + Juliet. In: Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405050_6
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