What You’ll Love about… Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

George Dawe, “Miss O’Neill as Juliet.” Public Domain via Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It never ceases to amaze me that this play that ends with the titular characters committing double suicide is taught to middle-schoolers. What’s great about it is that those lives are destroyed because the adults who rule the lives of their young people are too absorbed in their own nonsense to guide their young people to make better decisions, and there is a lot of that going…