Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Themes
- Love and Death
- Suggests love is an anarchic force which
destroys established social order, disrupts marriage and political alliances
- Play explores the nature of love and the social
structures which direct it into the destructive force
- Inevitable outcome is death - all
those who love in TWD die as a
result of it
- Love of Brachiano and Vittoria signifies the death
of Isabella and Camillo, with the revenge of their
deaths leading to the deaths of the instigators
- Love of B & V = adulterous and illicit
- Calls into question ideas concerning institution of marriage in the period
- Was a system designed to ensure patrilineal inheritance
and establish political alliances