"There never was a tale of more woe, than of Juliet and her Romeo"

The classic Shakespearean love tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is a story for the ages, full of lost love, feuding families and tragic endings. But what if Juliet had found that courage to defy her father and refuse to marry Paris? Could it take just one little change to alter their entire story?

Harriet Hunter is a 16-year-old girl living in Wineglass Bay, Tasmania, a small island off the coast of Australia. She is headstrong and stubborn: the archetypical modern teenager. Her essay on Shakespearean classics...