On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
I've been with Shakespeare all my life.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
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