"Then up on the balcony, what should appear? / But a fair little Juliet, speaking so clear!"

The play opens not with "Two households, both alike in dignity," but with a frantic narrator wearing a tiny hat. The Chorus runs around the stage screaming about the "grickle-grass feud." The Montagues and Capulets insult each other using Seuss-style names: "You Schnazzle-faced Grinch!" "You Futt-fish!"

Many educators and theater groups seek ways to make Shakespeare more accessible. One popular adaptation in scholastic theater is

but with a "Seussian" twist. The feuding families are renamed the Capitulates

For those interested in exploring the Seussification of Romeo and Juliet in more depth, a PDF guide is now available. This comprehensive resource provides a detailed analysis of the Seussification process, as well as a fully realized Seuss-style retelling of the classic play.