111 Book Review: Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
If you read this one in high school, you were most certainly being trolled.
Filled with fickle romances, schoolyard gangs, and questionable decisions by emo teenagers, Romeo & Juliet is a play about high school.
It’s no wonder then that English teachers bite their thumb at millions of freshman students every year, trolling them with a play that mocks their shallow teenage emotions, begging them to look into the text and see their own reflection. Willie Shakes himself must have been in on it too: the whole “love” story takes place over only two days, trolling even harder at the end.
Well played, Mrs. Smith from second period English class. Well played.
TL;DR: High School Musical meets Game of Thrones. Wait, that’s just Mean Girls. Is Romeo & Juliet just a Mean Girls rip-off?
My rating: 7 out of 11 Bitten Thumbs, But Not At You, Sir.
Get it here:
- IndieBound (print, U.S.)
- Better World Books (print, worldwide)
- Project Gutenberg (electronic, free)
- Apple Books (electronic)
- Google Play Books (electronic)
- LibriVox (audio, free)
- Scribd (audio)
Oh, you liked it? Well then, try: At the Sign of the Cat & Racket (tragic romance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (less-tragic romance)
