Lost Juliet
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I have searched the entire play and couldn’t find a single reference or allusion, other than the above sentence, that would indicate that the reason Juliet will not marry Paris is because she cannot marry him, having already lost her virginity to Romeo. Consequently, as we must always do when interpreting a Shakespearean text, we must assume that what is not there is not there for a reason. In other words, if Shakespeare wanted his audiences to believe that Juliet would have married Paris had she not consummated her marriage with Romeo, he would have made it clear at least somewhere in the text.
JULIET : Now, by Saint Peter’s Church and Peter too, He shall not make me there a joyful bride . I wonder at this haste; that I must wed Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo. I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear, It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris.
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I have read Romeo and Juliet several times and have seen it performed twice on stage, once in a ballet and several times on film. I have not until now heard the argument that Juliet doesn’t agree to marry Paris, not because of her intense love for Romeo, but rather because she has lost her virginity to Romeo. This reading, at first blush, appears to make some sense because if Juliet were to marry Paris he would, on their wedding night, discover that she is not a virgin, immediately demand an annulment and thereby disgrace Juliet and the entire Capulet family.
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TVGuide.com: It felt like we watched you die twice and it was harder the second time around. Was it even more of a heartbreaking moment for you playing that with Josh Holloway ? Mitchell: [ Laughs ] I'm so sorry about that. You basically just watched me die again. That's exhausting. I guess it was bittersweet. I was so happy to be there because I didn't think I was coming back at all. I was grateful. I enjoy V so much, so it felt like icing on the cake. I like Josh so much. We came full circle together in so many ways, so for us, it was just a joy to be together.
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Zev, that is not a typo. Juliet is saying, “I am not marrying anyone. And even if I WERE willing to get married, Paris is the last man I’d marry. I’d marry Romeo, who I hate, before I’d marry Paris.” Immediately prior to the quote, Juliet gave a speech to her mother that made it sound (to someone lacking the key information that she and Romeo are married) like she wanted him dead for killing Tybalt. Her mother has good reason to believe Juliet when she says she hates Romeo.
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When you’re creating something you’re in a box that can make it difficult to gauge what you are creating. You’re so focused, so caught up, so totally enveloped by the act of creation that it’s hard to step back at times. Inara’s post makes it clear that even at this stage of development, that effort is showing.
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With that in mind, the review Inara posted of Romeo + Juliet yesterday was a particular pleasure to read. Having had a hand in creating something you often wonder if people notice the details of your creation in the same way that you do. There are subtleties and nuances (and sometimes mistakes!) that you’re acutely aware of, and you often wonder if anybody else notices at all.
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I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Orlando Shakespeare Center this weekend and have been searching for an appropriate topic to write about. I found it on a website called Shmoop (tag line “we speak student”) which lists a series of exam-type questions for students reading the play. This question stood out (emphasis is mine):
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The fact that Romeo and Juliet have sex is what makes it impossible for Juliet to marry Paris and it is what leads to the play’s final tragedy. Why do the Friar and the Nurse decide to help Romeo and Juliet spend the night together, even after he has killed Tybalt? Could the play still have unfolded in a similar way without this night of lovemaking?
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TVGuide.com: With whom will you have scenes? Mitchell: I wish I knew. I actually really don't know that. You know those last lines she had in the premiere, where she said, "We can go dutch," she was obviously talking to somebody. I just don't know who she was talking to, so I feel like it will be really interesting to find out who and what situation that's in. Maybe that's what they're going to do.
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Poor Juliet ( Elizabeth Mitchell ). As if falling into the Swan hatch and exploding the bomb wasn't enough of a sendoff at the close of Lost 's Season 5, she died in the final season opener in Sawyer's arms — after a final kiss and a mysterious message. While fans are still mourning the loss of Dr. Burke, TVGuide.com jumped on the phone with Mitchell, who's shooting ABC's alien-invasion drama V in Vancouver. The 39-year-old actress says that Juliet may be dead, but Mitchell is returning to Hawaii soon as the show winds down.
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Inara got it dead on. She picked up on the irreverence of Mercutio, and the sympathetic nature of Paris, and wrote about them in a way that makes it clear we’re delivering the range of emotions and performance that we wanted to deliver. What’s particularly encouraging is that despite being enormously proud of everything we’ve done with Romeo + Juliet, we were still very much learning our craft. The techniques and capabilities we have for Paradise Lost are on a different level entirely.
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Zev Farkas – No, it’s “whom you know I hate”. Think about who she’s speaking to – her mother. As far as her parents are concerned, she hates Montagues in general and Romeo in particular because he has just killed her beloved cousin. To the best of her mother’s knowledge, Romeo is the man Juliet is least likely to want to marry.
1. Even were Juliet inclined to accede to her father’s wishes and marry Paris, since consummation was required in Renaissance Catholic Italy (and probably Elizabethan England, too) in order to create a binding marriage contract, it would be Juliet’s marriage (remember, it’s not a marriage until it’s consummated) and not just one component of that marriage (the consummation) that precludes her marriage to Paris. Shakespeare, in other words, would not have separated the marriage from the consummation because in the time of the play and his own time the two were coterminous.
Sorry but I cannot understand why you are skeptical about Kerr’s interpretation. In my opinion the matter is simple. The act of consummation makes the marriage lawful. If they hadn’t consummated the marriage it could have been cancelled and she’d have been forced to marry Paris by her parents. Now, she did consummate the marriage so when Lady Capulet says:”The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride” Juliet quotes her mother’s words by saying the opposite.