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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke
Aye, but isn't that what Romeo and Juliet is all about - a senseless death of two young lovers - but it was the only way to preserve love's first blush. How dull the story would become if we took it through marriage, kids, divorce, public drunkenness, depression, reckless behavior, and a slow death brought on by a chronic and debilitating illness.
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Merry Wives of Windsor is a fairly approving look at stable marriages. There are a lot of dangerous and destabilizing passions at work in Romeo and Juliet, and I think Shakespeare would not exempt youthful lust, love at first sight, etc. from that view, even if he was in love with Gwyneth Paltrow when he wrote it.
As for the corpses, I vote for buried alive.