Pip Rasmussen

Shakespeare happened.

Shakespeare happened.

The ultimate lover boy.

The ultimate lover boy.

So Shakespeare came in into the picture and basically revolutionized literature with his remarkable ability to portray the depth and complexity of human emotions.

Like, hello, Romeo and Juliet.

I think when we think about Shakespeare...

In The Difference of Courtly Love, Shakespeare was about life or death.

It was about making love and romantic love this really big thing, right?

And it was this idea of love at first sight, that you would die for your love, that love was going to be hard and that it was going to be like all encompassing.

And I think that, like we were saying, this is a lot of what we still think about romantic love today.

So it's so interesting because he played such a huge pivotal part in shaping the way that we think about romantic love.

Passion was elevated.

So, you know,

Previously, like we've been saying, passion and love and maybe sex was kind of this forbidden, like a fair secrecy that was something that you did over the side, but it would never be more important maybe than your duty, right?

And your role and the rules of society and your marriage.

Shakespeare basically elevated passion over duty.

He made sure that the narrative shifted as love was not really just something that, you know, was nice to have potentially on the side, but was something that was the overwhelming, like, hugely personal experience and something that should be something that we all aspire to have, right?

He also, in his writing...

brought so much complexity and nuance and depth to the human experience of love.