One of William Shakespeare's early plays, Romeo and Juliet (c. 1594) is a well-known tragedy about the relationship of two "star-crossed" lovers (1.P.6) whose families have quarreled for many years. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall deeply in love after meeting at a ball held in the Capulet house. Shakespeare was still winning over an audience when he wrote Romeo and Juliet, so he used many well-known styles and techniques to give the audience what they wanted. As GB Harrison explains, Shakespeare displays the best and worst characteristics of his early, immature style in Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses an excess of figurative and rhetorical language, along with nonce imagery. The opening scene of Act I begins with a series of exaggerated puns: "we won't carry coals... we should be miners... we'll be angry... tug on the collar" (1.1.1-4) . Audiences found these literary devices quite entertaining in Shakespeare's time, and were accustomed to opening scenes like this that would help command the theater's attention. GB Harrison sho...