If Literature’s Biggest Romantics Could Text

Imagine if the iconic characters from classic love stories had smartphones and used modern technology to communicate. SparkNotes took on this fun challenge and created hilarious text message exchanges that bring literature’s most passionate plots into the digital age. From Romeo and Juliet’s famous balcony scene reduced to a simple “Idk” response to the timeless yearning of “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” reimagined in a text conversation, these reenactments remind us why traditional courtship didn’t quite translate into the era of smartphones and social media.