These images are taken from a 2002 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The day after the Capulet party, Romeo asks Friar Lawrence to marry him ...

In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb.

The greatest love story ever told? No. The tale of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Listen instead to the Friar: Love moderately, not violently. We explain what that looks like.

Juliet is only 13; Romeo only a few years her elder. Their love is so all-consuming that they are willing to forsake everything—their families, their futures, even their own lives—for each ...

We are told by Friar Lawrence that “violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo becomes possessed by his possession of Juliet, as she becomes possessed by her possession of him.

“Romeo and Juliet” has always been high on the list, its tragic denouement hanging on Friar Lawrence’s inability to get word to poor Romeo that Juliet’s apparent death was but a drug ...

Derek Jacobi’s gravitas is squandered on narration and playing the hapless Friar Lawrence. Juliet and Romeo opens with a flurry of historical exposition delivered by Jacobi: medieval Italy ...

STAGE REVIEW At ART, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that’s both moving and in motion Diane Paulus directs a production of Shakespeare’s tragic love story ...