![]() Shakespeare’s use of violent refers to the quickness, the rashness, the speed that teenagers move at when they don’t care to think something through. Before there was a synopsis, before I even knew that it would be a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, about two teen heirs of rival gangs forced to work together to combat a mysterious monster that has risen in their city, I had that one line from Shakespeare running through my head: These violent delights have violent ends. The title of These Violent Delights came to me so early that I had it before I had most of the plot. ![]() Debut author Chloe Gong writes about adapting Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for her new YA novel, These Violent Delights, published November 17 by Simon & Schuster. ![]()
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