Re: Harry’s fate according to the bookies (more literary spoilers)

[dungrollin]

> Carol:
> It's something I was taught in one of my English classes in grad
> school. The teacher said that R&J followed all the conventions of a
> romantic comedy (star-crossed lovers, misunderstandings, etc.) except 
for the ending (and the two deaths I mentioned earlier--three,
> counting Paris, whom I'd forgotten about). Imagine Juliet waking up
> just half an hour earlier, in time to prevent Romeo's mistake. All's
> Well That Ends Well, so to speak. 
> 

Dung:
You mean it really *did* start out as Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's 
Daughter?! Damn. And there I was thinking Norman and Stoppard were 
being brilliantly clever and original...