It seems I have been caught out by the grammar police. “Wherefore” does not mean “where”. Does everyone else know this? It means why. And so the title of my just-published blog post is nonsensical. But so, it seems to me, is “Romeo, Romeo, WHY art thou Romeo?”
Jeez, who knew? I’ve always assumed that “wherefore” was just a lovely, poetic way of saying “where”.
Yikes. So I looked it up and found this explanation:
“Since what kept the lovers apart was their feuding families, they could be together without impediments if he had a different name. Why was he Romeo? (Indeed, a few lines later, Juliet asks, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.”)