I mean, I think failing to mention intergenerational familial feuds being stupid is probably an important omission, there...
He wasn't exactly GLOWING about the merits of that stupid grudge...
Did he think they were naïve..? Probably. Did he think the familial feud was a massive part of the whole debacle, and that the two families hopefully learned something as a result?? Fucking hell yes he did.
Shakespeare wasn't exactly a conservative, bruh. Just look at fucking Twelfth Night, or Merchant.... He just lived in "Interesting times", shall we say...
Well, the "falling in love with the scion of the family you are feuding with" just underscores how bad young-person judgement is, and is why they should continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, like the cattle they are.
I mean, I think failing to mention intergenerational familial feuds being stupid is probably an important omission, there...
He wasn't exactly GLOWING about the merits of that stupid grudge...
Did he think they were naïve..? Probably. Did he think the familial feud was a massive part of the whole debacle, and that the two families hopefully learned something as a result?? Fucking hell yes he did.
Shakespeare wasn't exactly a conservative, bruh. Just look at fucking Twelfth Night, or Merchant.... He just lived in "Interesting times", shall we say...
Well, the "falling in love with the scion of the family you are feuding with" just underscores how bad young-person judgement is, and is why they should continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, like the cattle they are.
Well that's certainly one (humorous, I hope?) interpretation of events, sure...
But I really, really, really doubt that is how Shakespeare intended it to be interpreted, lol...
Literally several hundred years of scholarship, and my own decently extensive reading, suggests, uhh, a slightly different interpretation, lol...
But that's cool. It's fiction. You can read into it what you want, I suppose... shrug