![]() ![]() As such, Romeo and Juliet, with its ancient grudge breaking to new mutiny, remains timeless while simultaneously lending itself to just about any current-day conflict imaginable: ethnic, nationalistic, religious, geographical and, key to this list, criminal. ![]() Times have changed in incalculable ways since the Elizabethan Age, but humanity still has a penchant for warfare along tribal lines. The bitter feud between warring aristocratic families, the Montagues and the Capulets (two real Italian dynasties who, prior to Shakespeare, were given literary immortality by Dante in his Purgatorio), have long served as the main inroad for ambitious filmmakers looking to update the play. It’s also one of the most famous crime stories: William Shakespeare’s tragedy is as much a tale of factional violence and a criminal war of attrition as it of the transformational power of love. It’s the most famous love story in the Western canon. ![]()
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