Still Great Lovers

The world's most enduring love story, Romeo and Juliet, continues to have as much relevance for a modern day audience as it did in Shakespeare's time. It is a masterpiece of lyric poetry. The story of star-crossed lovers, whose struggle for love and happiness in spite of familial opposition ends in senseless death, has been called the greatest work of romantic story ever written.
Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare most probably in 1594 or 1595. During much of the twentieth century, critics tended to disparage this play in comparison to the four great tragedies that Shakespeare wr…