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| Sep 29, 2017 at 3:53 | comment | added | Nathaniel Irvin | Also, I understand that Shakespeare's audience was already familiar with the story, that "doomed lovers" was a whole subgenre of literature in the 16th century, with other plays about Italian doomed lovers being common. So the prologue didn't really spoil anything, any more than a movie about Little Red Riding Hood would spoil something by it talking about the wolf eating the grandma in the first scene. | |
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| May 14, 2017 at 2:51 | history | answered | DAWR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |