Romeo and Juliet

did i add an extra star because i love baz luhrmann's film version so much? ... maybe.

this is probably one of my favourite shakespeare plays and while the above comment is kind of a joke, it's also kind of not because i think knowing the scenes beforehand really helped me enjoy the play more. oftentimes with other plays there's a lot of energy spent trying to figure out what the underlying message of everyone's words are, and that wasn't necessary here.

i absolutely love the language of this play. there are so many beautiful and intriguing lines, puns and metaphors. i loved how much i could enjoy and admire the word plays.

also just a side note that it lowkey highkey annoys me that people hate this play because the two kids fall in love too quickly or some shit. yeah they do. they're literal actual children. maybe i just never took this play as being a romantic tale and always focused more on the fact that it's tragedy how a family feud can bring so much destruction onto kids who had nothing to do with their parents' fuck ups. i know that sounds like i'm being pretentious as heck but i just. never understood it to be meant as romantic in the sense that young people thinking dying is their only way out is supposedly “romantic”. anyway.