... Paper. Response to-- Beyond Comedy: Romeo and Juliet In the following essay by Susan Snyder, she speculates that the play of Romeo and Juliet, dubbed in its entirety a tragedy, begins in fact as a comedy. Never having considered this notion before, and now considering, it is very clear early on in the play that the characters speak and act in a lighthearted, humorous, manner. It isn ... 't until these characters "fall" that the story of their love changes abruptly to a tragedy, and all humor comes to ... a halt. Snyder describes the difference between the comedy and the tragedy in a way...

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... Shakespeare does in "Anthony and Cleopatra". Shakespeare mythologies Cleopatra through the Roman perspective of Enobarbus, who describes her initial meeting with Antony using evocative, synaesthetic language. In Act 2, scene 2, her poetically elevated nature reflects the superlative beauty of the goddess of love "O"erpicturing that Venus." Through the use of mythological imagery such as "cupids," "Venus," "Neriedes" and "mermaids," ... their unyielding passion, even if it seems beyond our mortal capabilities. Such a demanding love borders on the self-destructive, as in "Romeo and Juliet,...

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