Hilarious tragedy by Ephraim Kishon
It was the Lark in the translation by Friedrich Torberg
Romeo and Juliet are alive - and arguing.
What if the most tragic love story of all time had no tragic ending at all?
The most famous couple in world literature do not find themselves dead in Verona, but alive in a bourgeois everyday life, decades after their supposedly tragic end.
Romeo is a tired civil servant, Juliet a frustrated wife, and daughter Lucretia brings a breath of fresh air - and plenty of chaos - into the dusty marriage. But then William Shakespeare himself turns up to complain about the wayward progress of his play...
A lively exchange of blows about love, everyday life and marital madness.
