Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare · 1597
Classics · ranked #17 in category
Two young people from feuding families fall instantly in love and secretly marry, only to be destroyed by the conflict they cannot escape. Shakespeare's tragedy of speed and fate asks what separates love from obsession and whether the world ever had room for what Romeo and Juliet were.
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