William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers. Though Romeo and Juliet is a triumph of dramatic lyricism, its tragic ending usurps most other aspects of the play and abandons us to unhappy estimates of whether, and to what degree, its young lovers are responsible for their own catastrophe (Bloom 87). The idealistic way that love is portrayed in this play is apparent and although it makes for a good …showed first 75 words of 2512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2512 total…My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. (Shakespeare II, ii, 131-135) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works cited Brooke, Tucker. The Yale Shakespeare. USA: Yale University Press, 1926 Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. 1598? Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare the Invention of the Human. NY, NY: River head books, 1998 Polachuk, A. Nicholas. A Plague O’ All Our Houses. http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/1088