you were romeo, you were throwing pebbles / and my daddy said 'stay away from juliet'
I recently (like, five minutes ago) saw the video for Taylor Swift's "Love Story," and it really begs the question: are there any other R&J/P&P mashups out there? Because that's basically what the video was: a weirdly Regency/Renaissance/fairy tale ball, with random shots of castle-like sets. (Also, the male lead running around in the grass in the untucked shirt, sans cravat, was very P&P3.) Or just Austen/Shakespeare more generally? (Didn't Kenneth Branagh do a Regency-inspired Much Ado once?)
Speaking of weird mashups, though--I realize that Taylor Swift is some ridiculously young age, so it's possible they haven't gotten to Hawthorne in her high school English class yet, but "You were Romeo, I was The Scarlet Letter"? Huh? You...have a creepy elfin daughter and live in the woods? You had a secret affair with a clergyman? Where is *that* lyric going?
Speaking of weird mashups, though--I realize that Taylor Swift is some ridiculously young age, so it's possible they haven't gotten to Hawthorne in her high school English class yet, but "You were Romeo, I was The Scarlet Letter"? Huh? You...have a creepy elfin daughter and live in the woods? You had a secret affair with a clergyman? Where is *that* lyric going?