Floater

Source:

"Floater (Too Much To Ask)" from "Love and Theft" (2001)

Quote:

Romeo, he said to Juliet, "You got a poor complexion, / It doesn't give your appearance a very youthful touch." / Juliet said back to Romeo, / "Why don't you just shove off if it bothers you so much?"

Comments:

Shakespeare sets Romeo and Juliet in Verona, a city in northern Italy. An inspiration -- if not the inspiration -- for this play was certainly "Pyramus and Thisbe," a tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses about a pair of star-crossed lovers from Babylon. (The picture above is from the acclaimed 1968 film, with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in the lead roles.)

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