Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is popular. By some accounts, it’s the second-most-performed Shakespeare play in the United States, and to many Americans who are used to high school English class, it ...

In high school, a beloved, bookish teacher introduced me and the other students in her class to the classics of literature. Though her efforts to spark our interest went unrewarded, I read “The ...

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler play Shakespeare's doomed couple in Sam Gold's Gen Z–flavored production. There’s a comic-relief scene at the end of Act IV in Romeo and Juliet that is nearly always cut.

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