Salon.com: “It is a play of itself the worst that I ever heard in my life.”
Do you know who said that? It was Samuel Pepys, the earliest known critic of plays.
Pepys wrote his succinct and cutthroat review in 1662, in response to William Shakespeare’s most enduring romance, Romeo and Juliet. Now, after more than three years since it’s last performance on Broadway, that staple of junior high English classes everywhere is coming back, and it’s looking for blood.
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