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what was the idea of love in general during the renaissance?
What was shakespeare idea of love during the renaissance?

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help please ! will give medal for best answer
what was the idea of love in general during the renaissance? 
What was shakespeare idea of love during the renaissance?

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well i found this .............. During Shakespeare's time, Elizabethan and early Jacobean, people did not marry for love. Royal marriages were arranged for reasons of state politics, nobles arranged marriages to enhance land holdings or for royal favor. The growing classes of skilled trades and professions arranged marriages within guilds to preserve wealth and commercial advantage (journeyman marrying the master craftsman's daughter, etc). One was expected to grow to love whom one married rather than the other way around as is common today, at least in the "western" world. Extramarital love relationships were extremely common; royal and noble illegitimate children given their special titles and names. The prefix "Fitz-" meaning illegitimate but recognized (Fitzroy, Fitzduke, etc). Many of the scenarios in Shakespeare's drama are commentaries on this social condition; especially those involving the character Sir John Falstaff, the amorous buffoon. http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131227072110AAZKAX3 im sure this will help u :)