"The groom and the bride": Behind the scenes (Post scriptum)

"Love will make a fool of anyone" -Shakespeare's note to the First Quarto, 1597 A.D.

I wanted to share the work-views and the subject matters behind the Romea and Julius's "The groom and the bride", tell about easter eggs and thematic premises. Maybe someone will be interested in it, others will not, but anyway I have to share it with someone.

Theme: The main message of the original was that love would make an idiot out of everyone, most of language experts talks about it much more differently, but it's hard to undermine the words of Shakespeare himself, what he really meant with his play. I took that motif and twisted it with all situations from the play like in a crooked mirror:

• In the original, Rosaline does not love Romeo, here Rosaline commits persecution and **** out of love.
• In the original, Tybalt is the epitome of fury, **** and anger, here is the basis of reason and compassion hidden behind his image of the Eternal Party Boy.
• In the original, the couple secretly get married, here the wedding is a show, a spectacle for the entire city.
• In the original, the balcony is an important turning point, here despite the fact that balcony is alluded three times, each time does not indicate the direction of the action, but only prepares the reader for the plot twist (the reverse of sealed fate from the play).
• In the original, lovers die and families grow stronger, here lovers survive and families are on the verge of another split (which is emphasized by an uncertain candidate to the new head, i.e. Tybalt).

Easter eggs:

• The Red Poison is literal allegory of poison from the play, emphasizing their sealed destiny, thus the car was manufactured in Mantua, the place where Romeo was to be banished.
• The **** of Mercutio in the play seals Romeo's fate, while here the "slay" of Mercutio changes the fate of Tybalt (it is so-called "literary inverted motif wheel" or "syndrom of reverse choosen one" in literature)
• "The fortune trustee..." ia an exact reference to all of Shakespeare's wordplays with the word "fortune", which he uses frequently in key moments of the play.
• I used the names "Caput" and "Montane" instead of "Capulet" and "Montague" to emphasize how the surnames change with the passing centuries, since this story takes place half a millennium after the play.
• When Lady Montane calls Lord Caput a "Mason", she is right. The Caput family in a real history is a family of Freemasonry.
• When Lord Caput calls Lady Montane and her family "swineherds", it is a far-based literary parabola to the another chapter where he calls her the similar sounding word: "sweetheart".
• "The devil's tricksters..." reveals the story's ending, the plot twist, and the role of friar Laurence long before anyone has a chance to figure it out.
• Hatred based on the sale of cat and dog food emphasizes the absurdity of this hatred. There is literally no company in the world that specializes in just one type of pet food.
• When Father Laurence explains to Tyblat that this is not the first disappearance, he alludes to two things at once: the original play, and the fact that the characters of Lady Caput and Lord Montane are not present throughout the entire story.