Juliet, in particular, by the decisions of the men around them. i mean, julie it is so sheltered. this is a girl who only believes her parents had to go to church. this is a girl who doesn t seem to know anybody in her city. she s painfully isolated. i think this is a reading before romance. the play was always hugely successful in shakespeare s day. but i think it was understood far more as a tragedy, as a shocking play, rather than a vision of any kind of aspirational love story. jeff, one particularly memorable moment from the play is a warning from fryer lawrence to romeo. these violent delights have violent ends, and in a triumph die, like fire and powder. which as they kiss consume. the sweetest honey is load some in its own deliciousness. and in the taste, confound the appetite. therefore, love moderately. long love dot so.