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Double-Crossed Lovers

William Shakespeare would be hard put to recognize his gently reared lovers of Verona in either version of Romeo and Juliet now appearing on Broadway—and so, for that matter, would Montague fils or Capulet fille. The story of the Renaissance feud with its mannered villainies cannot be brusquely transposed to the sidewalks of New York or reshaped into a Cold War comedy without losing that lyrical quality which in Shakespeare’s case made an artistic success of a cumbersome plot.

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Double-Crossed Lovers

William Shakespeare would be hard put to recognize his gently reared lovers of Verona in either version of Romeo and Juliet now appearing on Broadway—and so, for that matter, would Montague fils or Capulet fille. The story of the Renaissance feud with its mannered villainies cannot be brusquely transposed to the sidewalks of New York or reshaped into a Cold War comedy without losing that lyrical quality which in Shakespeare’s case made an artistic success of a cumbersome plot.