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ROMEO AND JULIET COURSEWORK ESSAY Explore how Shakespeare presents conflicting attitudes to love in the play Romeo and Juliet In the play Romeo and Juliet written in the 1600s by William Shakespeare displays conflicting attitudes to love. In his play he demonstrates how there are many more definitions of love which gives the play more complexity and helps add intensity to the audience. In Shakespeare's day men and women were expected to flirt with one another, it was a regular and frequent act that would show a man confidence and a women's fun side. The idea of courtly love was a European tradition and there were rules for every flirtatious male and female to follow. These rules applied mainly for men because usually the female is unattainable or married, usually of a much higher class in most cases. Another stage of courtly love is where the lover is consumed by there melancholy because...

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