Romeo and Juliet Wedded on This Day

Romeo & Juliet (1968)

Shakespeare decreed they must wed. So they did. Romeo married Juliet on 11 March 1302. Alas, there was no happy ending in this tale of young married love. The couple died - each in a painful way - for each other.

In contrast, I read of a blog few days ago in which the blogger described the romance of a young couple. The couple went against the wishes of the girl's parents, spent four years in secret trysts.

Bracing the elements they met and spent times in unsheltered places at night (sleeping on the streets and under the bridges). Perhaps this girl had bade the boy a thousand times good night or good morning each time they parted. Surely, there was no other name under heaven smelled as sweet as his. Alas, the boy left her eventually and married someone else.

Nino Rota wrote the score to the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film 'Romeo and Juliet'.