Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote
Romeo and Juliet
, he never would have written
Macbeth
.
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves toward her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces agianst the opposite sides like the magnet and the filings. Romeo soon find a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.
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I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....
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And when I shall die, take him, and cut him out into little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
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A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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