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Private love, public feud

Private love, public feud

In Romeo and Juliet, the relationship between two young people develops inside a feud between their families, the Montagues and Capulets. Shakespeare makes their private choices difficult to separate from public expectations about loyalty and honour.

1.3.1 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Literature
  3. /1.3.1 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 1.3.1 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.

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