Of Love And Shakespeare – Maybe Science Can Help?

Is their a scientific explanation for the love Shakespeare writes so eloquently about? “Merging art and science, the Royal Shakespeare Company has engaged a psychotherapist to explain the “science of love” to actors rehearsing new productions of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It hopes that they will get an understanding of what is happening in the human brain when one person gazes into another’s eyes and murmurs: I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell.”