Concept
Romeo
Overview
character from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Romeo is discussed.
“Ah--why are you called Romeo?” said Juliet. “Since I love you, what does it matter what you are called?” “Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized--henceforth I never will be Romeo,” he cried, stepping into the full white moonlight from the shade of the cypresses and oleanders that had hidden him. She was frightened at first, but when she saw that it was Romeo himself, and no stranger, she too was glad, and, he…
E. Nesbit, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
names the idea; a chapter is titled for it; states what it is; opens on it
But with a rear-ward following Tybalt’s death, ‘Romeo is banished’—to speak that word Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, All slain, all dead. Romeo is banished, There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, In that word’s death, no words can that woe sound. Where is my father and my mother, Nurse?
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
names the idea; states what it is; the book is about it
In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," for example, the most pathetic characteristic of Romeo is his love: but he is also placed before us under relations of the greatest contrast, whether it be in reference to his parents, his friends, his love troubles, or his affair of honour in which he fights with Tybalt, his attitude of deference and trust to the monk, nay, even on the verge of the grave his conversation with…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
states what it is; names the idea; opens on it
Their conversation was interrupted by Juliet’s nurse, who came to summon Juliet to her mother, and then Romeo learnt for the first time that the young girl who had so enchanted him was the daughter of the house, a Capulet, the child of his foe. And a few minutes later, Juliet, also making eager inquiry about the young guest in the guise of a pilgrim, heard that his name was Romeo, a Montague, the only son of the…
Mary Macleod, The Shakespeare Story-Book
names the idea; opens on it
ROMEO. Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here. This is not Romeo, he’s some other where. BENVOLIO. Tell me in sadness who is that you love? ROMEO. What, shall I groan and tell thee? BENVOLIO. Groan!
William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
names the idea; opens on it
Philosophers who discussed Romeo
Related ideas
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Suicide
- Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare
- Ovid
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Metamorphoses
- Juliet
Place in the tradition
Part of Robert C. Solomon.