#juliet capulet

[abcwordsurge]

sexual attraction? you mean the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

[lipstickhamlet]

something about the way shakespeare's plays are positioned to just barely cover the untold tragedies lurking underneath. lady macbeth knows how tender the babe is that milks her yet the macbeths have no child to pass the crown to. iago mentions that othello saw his own brother shot to pieces by cannons. olivia was planning to grieve her brother for 7 years until she met viola. beatrice knew benedick of old. lady capulet was only fourteen when she gave birth to juliet. it drives me crazy to see all the untold stories peeking out between the lines of the main plot.

[lenbryant]

Women in Shakespeare

[jakciekennedy]

sometimes i forget how good romeo + juliet 1996 is and then john leguizamo comes on screen and it’s like. oh yeah, this really is like the best adaptation ever. and then harold perrineau comes on screen and you’re like, yeah actually this performance should define the role forever. and then when doves cry starts playing at the wedding and you’re like, okay, yep, no one else will ever do it like this. incredible

[pixie1111]

romeo and juliet is so overrated that it’s become underrated

[lulllabied]

A collection of Juliets

1. Claire Danes

2. Nailea Devora

3. Hailee Steinfeld

4. Condola Rashad

5. Olivia Hussey

6. Fumi Kaneko

[velvet4510]

“Let’s be weirdos together” is true couple goals and the objective fact is that Romeo and Juliet are the ones who invented it, like in modern times we hear “it wasn’t a love story” this, “they would never have actually lasted” that, “it was just lust” here, “they only loved an idea” there, BUT if you actually read the text, Romeo starts spewing nonsense about pilgrims and saints at the moment they first meet (rather than, you know, introducing himself) and Juliet not only takes his little speech and immediately runs with it, buying into it and continuing it with total ease, but also completes it to form a perfect sonnet, and if that isn’t soulmates who match each other’s freak stuff, idk what is.

[giveme-mysinagain]

I think the problem with a lot of “feminist” classical retellings that makes them fail at being feminist is that they’re villainizing the wrong characters.

Stop holding the gods to human standards. They’re not human. That is quite literally the point of MULTIPLE Euripides plays. Go after the heroes.

But go after the RIGHT heroes. Why are we vilifying Hector, arguably one of the least problematic heroes, in stories where Achilles and Agamemnon exist? Why is Paris exempt from criticism, but Menelaus is the epitome of evil? (That part is also aimed at Euripides, I love The Trojan Women but holy shit you did him dirty my guy.) Why are we not being MORE hateful towards Jason? Why are we continuing to make Medea the villain?

Why are we making shit up about Romeo to give Juliet her “feminist freedom arc” that she ALREADY HAS IN THE PLAY? Paris is RIGHT THERE, go rip HIM to shreds. And on the opposite spectrum of that, why don’t we NAME everyone who wronged Ophelia instead of sanitizing her to the point where she’s a completely different character, and in the end, oppressing her just like everyone else in the play?

A lot of this also boils down to the refusal to accept women and feminine characters as flawed, as well as the refusal to acknowledge that, in order to uphold these false narratives, you have to completely destroy characters who aren’t traditionally masculine or feminine, but clearly we’re not ready for that conversation yet.