Juliet’s words link the rose to the conflict between her house, the Capulets, and Romeo’s house, the Montagues. What’s in the name of a rose? Or we might also ask: what’s in the color of a rose? For thirty years the opposition of the red rose and the white bespoke the bloody strife of the Wars of the Roses in England. But it was neither politic nor wise to speak ill of the government or the nobility.
This tragedy is about a blood feud between two households. The son from one family and the daughter from the other fall in love with consequences so tragic the feud ends, but too late for the lovers. There is a famous scene involving a balcony looking out over a garden.
