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215, 219). Given Shakespeare’s approach to Juliet as an outspoken figure who is easily ‘half the wooer’ in the transactions that occur throughout the balcony scene, one cannot help but wonder if, in Brooke’s explicitly moralising version, Juliet is more explicitly positioned as a femme fatale who ‘lies in wait’ for Romeus, aggressively angling for his attention. Turning, once again, to inauspicious insinuations, Brooke proceeds not merely to imply but actually to spell out Romeus’s death at the hands of an infectious, opportunistic love when, upon Romeus’s first sight of Juliet, Brooke ruefully exclaims: ‘So is the poyson spred throughout his bones and vaines/That in a while (alas the while) it hasteth deadly paines’ (221–22).
Thy tears are womanish . . 3 108–9). Clearly, Shakespeare outright steals from Brooke at this juncture; hence, it is peculiar that, when Brooke proleptically composes a line that sounds quintessentially ‘Shakespearean’, namely, the Friar’s counsel to Romeus – ‘Unto a valiant hart there is no banishment,/All countreys are his native soyle beneath the firmament’ (1043–44) – Shakespeare disregards this poetic prompt. In fact, at certain points it almost seems as though Shakespeare is at war with Brooke, mimicking the internal feud around which the legend turns while ROMEO AND JULIET (SCREEN ADAPTATIONS) 467754 - ROMEO AND JULIET (SCREEN ADA 5RPHRDQG-XOLHWBBB/D\RXW3DJH 5RPHRDQG-XOLHWBBB/D\RXW3DJH 5RPHRDQG-XOLHWBBB/D\RXW3DJH 26 literary contexts also positing a proprietary impulse toward his play.
133. 41 Martin, p. 43. 40 Vela, p. 95. 39 Crowl, p. 123. 38 ROMEO AND JULIET (SCREEN ADAPTATIONS) bibliographic scholar contends, is the drama surrounding the of dramatic literature. Adding to the intrigue, as one prominent pearean’, safeguarding the Bard’s sacred place in the pantheon but also explains the alleged inferiority of Q1 as ‘non-Shakesreconstruction’) not only subscribes to a romantic historiography reconstructed from memory (a practice known as ‘memorial bit-part players in search of fast cash – and was poorly Shakespeare’s play derived from literary piracy – stolen by jealous, theory.