Category: Courtly Love

My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day. Some of its traces still survive — or at least they do in the old Andy Hardy movies. if you are…

My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day. Some of its traces still survive — or at least they do in the old Andy Hardy movies. if you are…

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare in the 1590s which was performed at the Globe theatre. It explores two lovers who come from feuding families and their lives together are controlled by fate. The idea of fate was very prevalent at this time in Tudor England, with many rich families paying…