Love and violence in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

• Main Author: Chew, Lynn Jia Lin
• Other Authors: Jane Wong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The long established traditional interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet depicts a play of fate or sheer misfortune that the characters are not at all responsible for the catastrophe they suffer. Rather, it is a play that encapsulates the idea of rebelling against societal expectati...