I don’t know how to make progress on this dialectic. I think you’re obviously wrong, and either “Shakespeare wanting to sacrifice reasonableness for a better sound in that line” or “Juliet was supposed to be going a little bit crazy in that scene” are more reasonable hypotheses than a galaxy-brained take that the whole soliloquy actually makes sense on a literal level. You think I’m obviously wrong. I don’t know if there’s enough textual evidence to differentiate our hypotheses given that what I think of as overwhelming evidence for my position you somehow are updating in the opposite direction of, and think I’m being unreasonable for not seeing your side. The question also doesn’t matter.
The only real piece of empirical evidence I can imagine updating people here is historical evidence, actors’ instructions, etc, which I doubt we have access to. I’d love there to be a good answer to this conundrum, but I don’t see it. So I think I’m tapping out.
Hey, I’m not the original commenter that you were replying to, sorry. For what its worth I do think “Romeo” sounds better than “Montague” in that line.
I don’t know how to make progress on this dialectic. I think you’re obviously wrong, and either “Shakespeare wanting to sacrifice reasonableness for a better sound in that line” or “Juliet was supposed to be going a little bit crazy in that scene” are more reasonable hypotheses than a galaxy-brained take that the whole soliloquy actually makes sense on a literal level. You think I’m obviously wrong. I don’t know if there’s enough textual evidence to differentiate our hypotheses given that what I think of as overwhelming evidence for my position you somehow are updating in the opposite direction of, and think I’m being unreasonable for not seeing your side. The question also doesn’t matter.The only real piece of empirical evidence I can imagine updating people here is historical evidence, actors’ instructions, etc, which I doubt we have access to. I’d love there to be a good answer to this conundrum, but I don’t see it. So I think I’m tapping out.Hey, I’m not the original commenter that you were replying to, sorry. For what its worth I do think “Romeo” sounds better than “Montague” in that line.
Wow I’m a moron.