Goodreads asked Albert J. Clack:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Albert J. Clack Romeo & Juliet. Okay, my answer is undoubtedly influenced by the fact that I am also an actor; but my reason is that the tragedy of true lovers from conflicting backgrounds resonates across time, place and cultures. That's why the play is so often staged as occurring in different circumstances. I myself have played Juliet's father, Capulet, as a 1960s London gang boss, with Romeo the son of a rival mob. The story would work equally well, and movingly, with the families being, say, Moslem and Jewish. It is the universality of the theme, and the doomed helplessness of the 'star-crossed lovers', that makes this pair my choice in answer to your question; although the beauty of the language takes a bit of beating, too!

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