Still the 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. …

…of messages and themes to do with human relationships. Viewed from this fresh perspective, Shakespeare's tragic drama of the "star-crossed" young lovers is seen to be an extraordinary work. Romeo and Juliet was an experimental master piece at the time of its composition. As a result, I think, this is the greatest teenage love story of them all. Shakespeare didn't invent the tale of the star-crossed lovers, he just did it better than anyone else.