Romeo and Juliet, ugh. It's hard to even think about this play without having the threat of my eyeballs rolling straight out of my head. This is probably one of Shakespeare's most misunderstood plays, and that's probably what prompts my fits of irritation, but I don't really want to write an essay right now. My irritations pushed aside though, I recognize it's one of the Shakespeare plays that you just have to read, if you're on a mission to read Shakespeare.

Read it for Mercutio. He is, in my opinion, an early Hamlet and completely awesome. He's like what Hamlet would be like if Hamlet could make people laugh.