Despite this knowledge, Juliet cannot change her feelings of love for Romeo. She calls him her “love” and refers to the feud between the Capulets and Montagues as her “only hate”.

MacMillan offers no reconciliation of the Montague-Capulet feud at the end, just the sight of a dying Juliet struggling to reach the slumped body of Romeo. The journey to that point is a whirl ...