Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, one of the most famous and arguably one of the best authors of the English language.  It is probably the easiest of Shakespeare's plays to understand and also one of the most famous.  In the prologue to the play, we learn that two families, The Montagues and The Capulets, have had a feud for many years.  We also learn that the love between two of their children inevitably brings and end to this feud.  Both funny and sad, Romeo and Juliet  is a timeless tale of young love in the face of death, friends, family, and society.