William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

Underwhelmed by the insights Spark Notes or Cliff Notes gives into the Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Looking for a version of Shakespeare's greatest play that's easier to read than the Oxford or Folger edition? You've come to the right place. After reading enough classics: Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment......and their parodies: Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride Prejudice and Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ben Winter's Android Karenina......author Aretino Wilde decided it was time to give back to the community which had so enriched his life. Set 500 years in the future and with all the frenetic momentum the internet, laser swords, and cat memes can add to a retelling, Romeo and Juliet: A Satire has all the sex and violence you might expect from a South Park or Archer episode with the sort of deep-cut literary allusions that would make your English professor lose his mind. Written by someone who, sitting in his assigned seat in sophomore year high school English class, fell in love for the first time with Olivia Hussey as girl on the balcony. It's been a beautiful journey...