She is only fourteen, he only a few years older. Their families are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet Romeo and Juliet meet and fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are secretly married, but their brief happiness, is shattered by fate.

Film adaptation of the Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers.

"A fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family"-- 2009. Patterson earned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family, and over the months that followed she kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold? Sifting through the few belongings her father left behind, looking...

Critical essays examine the main themes and central characters of Shakespeare's tragedy

A prose retelling, incorporating lines from the play, of the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona.