I’ll never forget one particular moment in my high school English class. We were reading Romeo and Juliet, a rite of passage for bored, lusty, American teenagers everywhere. When I made the offhand suggestion that perhaps the author might have reconsidered the “love at first sight” premise, and instead offered a bit more relationship development […]
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The Nameless Nurse
Lois Leveen explores Shakespeare’s comic relief in “Juliet’s Nurse”