How Shakespeare explores romantic love, Petrarchan love, sexual love and love's link with death across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'O brawling love! O loving hate!', 'Did my heart love till now?', 'My bounty is as boundless as the sea', 'These violent delights have violent ends', 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds', 'Thus with a kiss I die'.
Petrarchan love for Rosaline against Romeo's love for Juliet, the Nurse's and Mercutio's bawdy view of love, and love joined with death.
