'Romeo and Juliet' might be remembered as a love story, but its tragic ending was actually the result of the plague. ProfessorMKE explains why on RadioBoston:
Romeo, Patrick Armand, and Juliet, Pollyana Ribeiro, come together in the new Boston Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet. " studies how the famed playwright understood and wrote about pandemics and infectious diseases.to argue William Shakespeare's"Romeo and Juliet" might be remembered as a love story, but its tragic ending isn't the result of a family feud. Instead, it was really the plague.
“Friar Lawrence gives his fellow friar, Friar John, a letter to take to Romeo to explain this to him. Friar John doesn't get there because he’s stopped by people who are employed to police the streets, to make sure that people who are infected [with the plague] or who have come into contact with someone infected do not travel around.
“There were so many themes, so many uncanny moments in the class. It was chilling and wonderful to experience that with these students. For me to look at these documents from the 16th and 17th centuries through the eyes of someone who now understood pandemics from first-hand experience, to experience that alongside the students, was really amazing."
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