Love and Petrarchan Lover

• what is a Petrarchan lover

  man who is hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with a woman he cannot have
• what does a Petrarchan lover idolise

  object of his love, placing her on pedestal and lamenting he cannot have her in melancholic ramblings - woman is usually unaware she is object of love
• how does Petrarchan lover link to play

  Romeo is unrequitedly in love with rosaline who has made a row of chastity, so she wont return affections
• how does Shakespeare satirise / ridicule Petrarchan lover in play

  Romeo abandons love for rosaline after seeing Juliet once
• what does Shakespeare show through romeos character

  Petrarchan lover lacks grounding in their love where they idolise a version of he woman rather than who she really is
• how does Petrarchan lover objectify women

  views them as objects rather than real people - Shakespeare ridicules this