Shakespeare was then 31 years old, married for 12 years and the father of three children. Romeo and Juliet, regarded by many as William Shakespeare’s first great play, is generally thought to have been written around 1595. Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Romeo and Juliet is unmatched, in Shakespeare and in the world’s literature, as a vision of an uncompromising mutual love that perishes of its own idealism and intensity. There had to be one high song of the erotic by Shakespeare, one lyrical and tragi-comical paean celebrating an unmixed love and lamenting its inevitable destruction. Shakespeare, more than any other author, has instructed the West in the catastrophes of sexuality, and has invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death. Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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