Romeo and Juliet: The New Age vs The Old Age "Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge, to break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean: from forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take thier life." Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare's best plays, is one of the best love/tragedy stories he has written. It is a story a two "star-crossed lovers", or two people in love that weren't meant to be in love, on a path of love which eventually leads to disaster. That same plot has remained in every recreation of Romeo and Juliet. It has been