Isn't Romeo and Juliet just a story of what oppressive love can do to a person. Because at the end, both characters killed themselves and they did it out of obbsessivness and stupidity, so isn't Romeo and Juliet a story of stupidity and too much love oppsession.
Within the Encyclopedia Iranica some French research papers are cited that allude to a Chinese source text by "Yan-king-fu". The relevance is that the days of the week were written in Sogdian:
The planetary week was introduced in China by the Manichean Sogdians
with the original Iranian names of...
That question already cost me something like $100 because I broke down and ordered Middleton's Collected Works and the companion volume. Not for the sake of the question, but just because I got more interested in Middleton.
I want a book of poems, some red wine, Some air to breathe, some bread on which to dine, With you beside me in some empty ruin. No Sultan's state will be as sweet as mine.