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English Literature - Romeo and Juliet
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Context - Courtly love
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Presents the male lover who views his lady as unattainable and effects/pretends to be love sick, in torturous suffering and pain, while the object of his love adopts a cool and disdainful attitude towards him. Shakespeare drew on the context of Petrarch's courtly love poetry in his depiction of Romeo's false love for Rosaline.
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