Why is Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" still interesting to a modern teenage audience?

William Shakespeare is the grand literary figure of the Western world. During England's Elizabethan period he wrote and directed dozens of plays, which continue to dominate world theatre over four hundred years later. Shakespeare handled high drama, romance and slapstick comedy with equal ease and was known as "the Bard of Avon". He was among the few playwrights who have excelled on both tragedy and comedy and several of his plays contain song that are …

…how much time passes, people will still fall in love and have friendships and it intrigues the reader because they can relate to what is happening at some level. Shakespeare had a skill for writing about exactly what people wanted to watch and because of his insight into human nature, his work has stayed relevant to the lives of his readers for over four hundred years and will continue to do so for many more.