Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

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  Hello everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  So Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

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  Many of you were probably forced to read this when you were in high school.

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  And little did we know back then how much philosophy there was underneath the events of the play.

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  See, this is one of those stories.

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  where I think to understand the significance of a lot of the stuff that happens in it,

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  you gotta know about a scene that goes on at the very end of it first.

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  Because once you know about the ending of this play,

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  then all the stuff before it starts to take on a whole new meaning.

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  I'm talking about the scene where there are three people lying dead inside of a tomb in a churchyard.

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  Two of these people are teenagers who've just taken their own lives.

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  Their names are Romeo and Juliet.

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  The other guys named Count Paris, who's been stabbed to death by Romeo just hours before.

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  Outside of the tomb.

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  There's a friar from a local church named Lawrence who's pleading with the authorities of the city.

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