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2013

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Love Kills: Exploring Young Women In Shakespeare, Malcolm X. Evans Apr 2013

Love Kills: Exploring Young Women In Shakespeare, Malcolm X. Evans

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Taking a look at how William Shakespeare writes young women (particularly in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet), Evans puts forth the idea that "love kills." There are no young and strong characters that are powerful, entirely as women, in the works of Shakespeare. To further put forth the idea Evans comments on a production of his own design, by the same name, which brings together the Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.