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Romeo and Rosaline: [Pretty Girls Make Graves]
Book Details
Author(s)Calvin Abbasi, Andrew Harrell
PublisherVintage Contemporaries Publishers
ISBN / ASINB00JUEOK0S
ISBN-13978B00JUEOK02
Sales Rank1,224,712
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
Romeo and Juliet, 1.1.7
"So here lies the post-landscape to [LoVe] everlasting and holy solemn kiss; the pain of delusion and silent rejection meshed in remiss.
This is descending into a flame beclouded Hell after the instant of being shown
Heaven's pine.
This is the aftermath of the failed romance of this boy and his Rosaline."
Romeo and Rosaline, pg 4
Just days before young Romeo Montague gazed his eyes upon the literary world's most revered rebound, his heart belonged to another. The limited knowledge Shakespeare provides us with paints a picture of a one-way romance riddled with insanity, paranoia, loss, confusion, and obsession. The spectre of Rosaline looms large over the Bard's star-crossed tale and now we finally understand why. A flurry of lust and pain, the journey of Romeo through his first infatuation is finally explored in this modern masterpiece.
From poetic imagery that harkens to an era long lost to the rage-filled malaise and substance addiction of a modern suburban dystopia, this prelude to a postmodern tragedy is the rightful complement to Shakespeare's original drama.
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
Romeo and Juliet, 1.1.7
"So here lies the post-landscape to [LoVe] everlasting and holy solemn kiss; the pain of delusion and silent rejection meshed in remiss.
This is descending into a flame beclouded Hell after the instant of being shown
Heaven's pine.
This is the aftermath of the failed romance of this boy and his Rosaline."
Romeo and Rosaline, pg 4
Just days before young Romeo Montague gazed his eyes upon the literary world's most revered rebound, his heart belonged to another. The limited knowledge Shakespeare provides us with paints a picture of a one-way romance riddled with insanity, paranoia, loss, confusion, and obsession. The spectre of Rosaline looms large over the Bard's star-crossed tale and now we finally understand why. A flurry of lust and pain, the journey of Romeo through his first infatuation is finally explored in this modern masterpiece.
From poetic imagery that harkens to an era long lost to the rage-filled malaise and substance addiction of a modern suburban dystopia, this prelude to a postmodern tragedy is the rightful complement to Shakespeare's original drama.
