William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet remains one of literature's most studied and beloved plays in the history of English Literature. Its themes of love, fate, and family conflict resonate across centuries, making it a perennial subject of discussion and analysis. Based on frequently asked questions here on eNotes, we’ve compiled the top five questions people…
Read More "Top 5 Most Common Questions About Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet"
The first time I read Romeo and Juliet, I was a freshman in high school. And, like many other high school freshmen, I hated every minute of it. When I was first introduced to Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, I was already exhausted by the oversaturation of Romeo and Juliet in pop culture—everything from Leo DiCaprio’s 90s…
Read More "How I Learned to (Finally) Appreciate Romeo and Juliet"
April is a fabulous month for all sorts of reasons: the sun is brighter, the temperature is higher, the flowers are blooming... And this month has a lot to do with Shakespeare. If you haven't already noticed, we at the 'Notes are big fans of the Bard, and April gives us even more excuses to…
For one often hailed as the Bard of love stories, Shakespeare sure has a weird way of showing/telling it. Even his most famous tale of romance, Romeo and Juliet, is a little...off...in the love department, at least for modern times. Romeo and Juliet isn't the only Shakespeare work that is little bit strange; in fact a pretty large number of his works depict love in ways…
This month we’re opening our data vault and sharing some eNotes secrets. We get thousands upon thousands of student questions on every topic imaginable. And those questions are viewed by even more students around the world. So it takes a unique question to top our charts and get more clicks than all the rest. Here…
Read More "The 10 Most Popular Homework Help Questions on eNotes"
Me, an hour ago on Tumblr: Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll... Wait. What's this? Yep. It's time for a new cinematic interpretation of the Ultimate Forbidden Love. It's been seventeen years, believe it or not, when the then 17-year-old Claire Danes starred as Juliet, opposite 22-year-old Leonardo di Caprio as Romeo. This time, the…
Read More "Violent Delights: A New Romeo and Juliet Film Coming Soon"
One of my favorite things that has been going around the internet for some time is the EMO person who posted, "What if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?" The lightning-fast response was, "That means you're his Rosaline and you survive the friggin' play." Despite the reality of what happens to the "star…
Read More "Letters to Juliet: A Project of Love for the Lovelorn"
For twenty years now, the L.A. Women's Shakespeare Company has been staging Shakespearean plays with an entirely female ensemble. Later this year (August 17-October 4), the company will take on Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, Hamlet, with LAWSC founder and artistic director Lisa Wolpe in the title role. In 1993, the LAWSC was completely funded by private…
Read More "The LAWSC’s All-Female Production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet"
