“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare699

English playwright and poet 1564–1616

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

[Dn5px1.6Fs@novice.uwaterloo.ca, 1996]
1990s

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Ruthless

“As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

Review of Palimpsest, p. 281
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)

“The ‘Romeo and Juliet’ story, we’re so past that. I have a very deep respect for art, but I also think we have a lot to learn from pop culture. And that is the future. Either you can ignore it and be stuck in the past, or you can learn from it.”

Danny Tidwell (1984) American dancer

In response to critics and ballet fans who say Tidwell "sold-out" by auditioning on So You Think You Can Dance <br class="br">La Rocco Claudia. "TV Viewers Discover Dance, and the Debate Is Joined" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/dance/21revo.html?ref=dance#, The New York Times, September 21, 2007