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We may all be fools when it comes to love, but thankfully none of us will accidentally switch places with our twin brother and fall in love with our sister-in-law. Probably, anyway.
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- 00:01
We speak Student! shakespeare on love
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Romeo oh Romeo, wherefor art thou uh Romeo
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a Ia Shmoop. Ah! love everyone has a favorite love story
- 00:14
and some of the greatest love stories of all time were written by Shakespeare
- 00:18
there's Romeo and Juliet which was all about true love
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- 00:21
and death there's a Othello
- 00:25
which was also about love and jealousy and death
- 00:28
lots of death mixed in with love here huh
- 00:32
so while Shakespeare did write a lot of love stories, his love stories were not simple
- 00:36
formulaic
- 00:37
rom coms, instead they were messy complicated
- 00:41
and the Grim Reaper sometimes made a guest appearance
- 00:45
Hey guys! How's it going?
- 00:48
One of shakespeare's favorite things to do in his love stories was to take
- 00:51
characters who absolutely loathe each other
- 00:53
at the beginning at the play and throw them together until hey they get hitched
- 00:57
For example in taming of the Shrew
- 01:01
Petruchio of screws with the mind of headstrong stubborn Katharina
- 01:07
until she turns into a loving and obedient bride
- 01:11
Wow shakespeare you're sick man. I'm not sick
- 01:14
It's just written that way. Another trick the playwright liked to employ was to have
- 01:18
someone fall in love with completely different person halfway through the
- 01:21
play
- 01:22
take Phebe the character in As You Like It
- 01:25
the poor girl is in love with Ganymede whose actually Rosalind in disguise
- 01:29
as a guy by the end of the play however Phoebe has forgotten all
- 01:33
about her crush on a cross-dressing Rosalind she marries the shepherd
- 01:37
Silvius
- 01:38
and they spend the rest of their lives happily herding sheep together
- 01:44
or take The Comedy of Errors in which a pair of twins both named Antipholus
- 01:48
accidentally end up switching places
- 01:50
without realizing it the Antipholus who everyone thinks is married to
- 01:53
Adriana
- 01:54
falls for and Adriana's sister Luciana who was seriously concerned that a man she
- 01:59
thinks is her brother-in-law
- 02:00
is attracted to her. Got all that? Yea, we thought so
- 02:03
So perhaps what Shakespeare was actually trying to do was tell us
- 02:07
something important about love in his plays
- 02:09
namely that people in love tend to act foolishly
- 02:12
I love you Shmoopy Whoopy Cakes I Wub you to my Sappy Wappy
- 02:16
We've all sent text messages to a love interest that we immediately regretted
- 02:21
mom it just goes to show that people in love today still
- 02:30
act very much like people who are in love during Shakespeare's time
- 02:35
people have been are and always will be
- 02:38
fools for love
- 02:45
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