Romeo and Juliet | Class 19: Love and Myth in Act 3

Discussion of Irony Findings

From the homework assigned in Class 18, have students share their findings of irony in the first three acts of the play, citing the act, scene, line, and type of irony. Classmates should mark such instances in their own texts.

Lecture Topic: Religion of Love and the Role of Myth

Romeo and Juliet have adopted love—or at least the idea of love—as their religion. Point out to students that both Romeo and Juliet evince familiarity with Petrarch, the creator of the sonnet and the father of humanism. The object...

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