In the famous ‘balcony scene’ from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo Montague is in the garden of the Capulet mansion when his new love Juliet appears at her bedroom window above. As he gazes up, the infatuated young man breathes admiration of Juliet’s beauty, comparing her favourably with the sun, the moon and the stars of heaven.

Juliet breaks in on Romeo’s flights of ecstasy, talking aloud to herself and regretting that of all the handsome young men of the world, the one she loves bears the surname of her father’s bitterest enemy. Hearing this, Romeo cannot keep silence, and bursts out with an offer to be rechristened at once.

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