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Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification)
- Author(s):
- Gloria Lee McMillan (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Economics & Literature, GS Drama and Performance, Rust Belt Literature, TC Anthropology and Literature, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Literature and anthropology, Drama, Conflict management, Literature and society, Psychoanalysis, Ethnology, Culture--Philosophy
- Item Type:
- Blog Post
- Tag(s):
- exclusion, Shakespeare, Anthropological approaches to literature, Conflict resolution, Sociology of literature, Social anthropology, Cultural theory
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6ZS2KC4D
- Abstract:
- ‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare's _Romeo and Juliet_: Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J... Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018 Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societies. ETYMOLOGY of exogamy: (ɛkˈsɒgəməs) [f. Gr. ἔξω (see exo-) + γάµ-ος marriage + -ous.] Even enemies of the same ethnicity, as presumably the Capulets and Montagues were, can dehumanize and turn the 'other' into dirt. Example from Chicago in 20th C.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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