...xi). At the height of desire, one is haunted by death. In his discussion of Romeo and Juliet, for example, Dollimore claims that the lovers' desire for one another actually masks a desire for...that the desire for death has to be regulated and sublimated in iconic figures such as Christ and the martyrs who experience transcendence through death. ...

... (xi). At the height of desire, one is haunted by death. In his discussion of Romeo and Juliet, for example, Dollimore claims that the lovers' desire for one another actually masks a desire for death... that the desire for death has to be regulated and sublimated in iconic figures such as Christ and the martyrs who experience transcendence through death. ...