Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

As one of the world's greatest love stories "Romeo and Juliet" continues to excite new theatre goers, readers and film goers.

Its depiction of tragic lovers strikes a chord in each generation of young people, and seems to speak in their own idiom.

As such, it reflects, and allows us to analyze, changing attitudes to sex in a violent world.

This collection of contemporary essays raises topical debates about the nature of love conventions, as well as offering new insights into Shakespeare's text.