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Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe - swagger and vivacity cohabit with death

Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Romeo and Juliet that flings us into a vortex of frontier-town politics where men are men and bad girls wear gingham.
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Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet - plot summary

If you’ve heard of Romeo and Juliet, you’ll probably know that it is a play about love. It’s not all soppy nonsense though – there’s a good dose of duels, secret plots and tragic deaths too.