It was exactly 403 years to the day that Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary:
…to the Opera, and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life…
Well, I beg to differ, Mr Pepys. So much so, in fact, that I’ve just published a set of online end-of-unit assessments to Romeo and Juliet, and I’m inordinately proud of them.