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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare's tragic play about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths unite their feuding families.
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"Most of us today, we think of Romeo and Juliet as the ultimate love story. People don't realize that contemporaries of Shakespeare at the time saw it as a cautionary tale of don't let your teenager fall in love with somebody because this is what's going to happen to you."
Attribution: Mark uses Romeo and Juliet as an example of how historical perspectives on love differed from modern views