her rotting, squishy, dead ancestors

Shakespeare OMG! OMG! Jezebel is branching out into literary criticism. Witness, "Why Romeo And Juliet Is Shakespeare’s Worst Play." Best part? The rebuttle in the comments:
"It can be read as a critique of conventional romantical poeticizing (aka making fun of cliched dudes who are more into homoerotic brotherhood and their own narcissistic views of themselves as lovers than their professed beloved object). Also Juliet's soliloquy right before she takes the medicine is wicked macabre and grotesque. She imagines being entombed with all her rotting, squishy, dead ancestors including the recently dead (and therefore freshly corpsified) Tybalt, who would also be really angry at her.
IMHO they're both wrong. There is no, like, bad Shakespeare. Just bad productions.

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