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...Weeks works as something of a Romeo and Juliet in reverse. Where Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers found common ground in world torn asunder by petty hatreds and jealousies, Lyne's sexual mercenaries have managed to find isolation and meaninglessness in a world filled with potential for those who have enough imagination to discover the meaning in their lives...
...general issue is an extremely important one," said Juliet Schor, an assistant professor of economics at Harvard specializing in unions. "The workers are saying they want to be treated like human beings...
Bonham Carter:"Guilford is more modern, a bit of a rascal; Jane is rather austere, into Greek and Plato. I suppose that there is the temptation to compare them [as] doomed lovers to Romeo and Juliet, although [Jane and Guilford] did have the option to die, whereas Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers...
Moreover, the poem also includes several phrases nearly identical to passages in "Romeo and Juliet," Taylor added...
Neither the external nor the internal evidence is strong, Evans said. "Commonplace book attributions are notoriously uncertain," he said, and as for its "Romeo and Juliet" connections, Evans said, "Anything can echo Romeo and Juliet and many...