God damn. Did everyone back then become emo and kill on impuse. And I call it acid because I have the same problem.
Well actually most of the deaths in the story are accidental... except with Tybalt vs Mercutio... and Romeo slaying Tybalt... then Romeo kills Paris.... and Lady Montague dies... that's accidental right? "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath." ... erm... and Romeo and Juliet kill themselves... ok so yeah everybody was loving loony.
But the point was that there were these status that went along with a poem that said two star crossed lovers took their lives in Verona Italy.
So Shakespeare said "what the hell, its already popular, I don't have to worry if people will love it or not" and adapted it to a major motion picture like they did with Transformers.... er he adapted it to a play write. :D
Long story short: they ran out of doughnuts on Transformers. And King Kong.