If there is room for one more response to this interesting assignment, I would add this:consider writing the letter from the point of view of one of the characters, such as Juliet. Using bits and pieces of Juliet's language in the play to make the letter seem authentic, she might ask her creator some pertinent questions as to why he has her do certain things, who she reminds him of, and so on. Juliet might even express her displeasure at having to die at the end of the play, explaining that she would have preferred to live for that would have provided a different meaning to the play (you figuring out what the play would be like if, say, she lived but Romeo died, or she died but Romeo did not. Choose one or two or three passages from the play and, in the voice of Juliet (or another character) express your approval or disapproval of the way Shakespeare wrote them, asking him questions in the process.
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