Romeo & Juliet stars sue over 1968 film’s teen nude scene
Henry V is my favourite of all Shakespeare's plays. There are so many, many great lines in it. No, I don't find Shakespeare overrated as you do. However, I will say I'm much more fond of his tragedies and histories than comedies, but that's just because I find farce too unbelievable so it dampens my enjoyment of any play that uses the convention, no matter how well written. Actually, that's part of my problem with R & J. It's basically a conventional farce plot, even though it's not comedy. It's the same goofy premise.
Is it goofy though really? If anything, the whole backstory surrounding Romeo and Juliet's families despising one another for never-disclosed reasons, its a generational hatred that's been brewing for decades, if not centuries, in business, politics, just coexisting in a modest, Italian Renaissance town is too much to handle. Pretty much the story starts out with one huge, nasty fight breaking out in the market place and its gets so bad that the city's ruling prince and his soldiers tell them,on pain of death, if they don't drop their swords now, he'll kill or exile their arses and that he's getting sick and tired of their families' bitter rivalry and they'd better tell him they'll stop it, end their feud somehow, otherwise any more public duels or fights in his city results in exile or death. Both families hate and despise each other, even the cousins or nephews, then the son and daughter from each family meet, actually take the time to get to know each other and fall in love, despite their respective families' ignorance.
It's a fatal morality tale that shows how two large families hatred for each other, tends to be generational and the further it descends down the genealogical timeline, it becomes toxic and counter-productive. At the very end of the play, Capua's prince scolds and reminds both heads of each family that their long-simmering, disdain and scorn led to their son and daughter's deaths, as well as Tybalt (a good example of male chauvinism and toxic masculinity, IMHO).
Honestly, there are similar tales expressed in the Bible. The circumstances are very different, but the world's first murder happened (Cain and Abel) because their parents assigned them different wives and Cain was more in love with Abel's wife, who rejected his advances, which leads to the breaking point where God accepts Abel's sacrifice of lamb but not Cain's offering of wheat, vegetables, or plants( in the Old Testament Bible, a grain offering is just as legitimately acceptable as a lamb sacrifice) except Cain's selection was kind of a half-arse, second rate offering and God doesn't accept half-arse anything, much less when he knows you can easily afford to do and give better. God even went to Cain and told he wasnt playing favorites, and reminded him that he rejected his offering because it was third-rate and telling a murderous, egotistical sociopath why he's wrong usually doesn't end with a happy ending and it lead to Cain luring his brother out onto the field, probably not intending to kill him(I don't think Cain's murder was motive) but to give him a nice arse-kicking, that went way too far and he ended up killing him. If you examine Cain's initial reactions after seeing his brother's dead body, he was sorry and filled with regret. He even tried to bury Abel's body. Those aren't the actions of a meticulous, premeditated murderer.