My difficulty is with the word "favoured." I believe the play suggests that they wanted love and, as so many people do, they mistook the fierceness of their attraction for true love.
After all, love is as much an action as a feeling. If it were a feeling alone, we could not be asked, at a wedding ceremony, if we "promise to love...'til death." Who can promise a feeling?
But the role of feelings in love is also undeniable. We must be attracted to the other person, and very, very often, the first attraction is physical.
So did Romeo and Juliet favour lust over love? I think I would say "no." I may be a romantic at heart, but I think the question is too simplistic and doesn't account for the fact that they were very young and were, as so many young people are, looking for true love in the only way they knew.
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