Most modern adaptations of William Shakespeare don’t include the playwright as a character, but some paint him to be an arrogant jerk to the Backstreet Boys’ tune “Larger Than Life.” That’s just one ...

Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love ... Below is an extract from the play's first prologue.

Romeo and Juliet are prepared to lose their families ... and that the position of the stars controlled life events. The prologue tells the audience that their love is fated to end in tragedy ...

It was inexcusable, however, to omit the prologue speeches ... It is night, of course; and for Romeo and Juliet, as for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, night is blissful and day abhorrent.

In the first few pages of “Romeo and Juliet,” we learn the fate of the titular characters. Not only are their deaths described in the prologue, they are foretold in the oft-shortened title of ...

In an apology tweet on Monday, the Icarus Theatre Collective wrote, “These are NOT two households both alike in dignity,” referring to lines from the prologue of “Romeo and Juliet,” which ...

Sixty years old, and still fresh: in its anniversary year, The Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet is ardently danced. With its feuding families and star-crossed lovers, the story ...