Caught!

"Come, we burn daylight, ho!"

Mercutio, Act I, scene 4, line 45, Romeo and Juliet.

In case you thought that was an expression invented by cowboys.

The same scene,  lines 115 thru 122.

Is Shakespeare a fatalist?

Is Romeo?

Is it God who has the steerage of Romeo's course?

Teenage boys, armed, are bloody-minded fools.

Consider, for just one example, Tybalt in Act I, scene 5, who so furiously longs to kill Romeo.

As for the blast of love at first sight in the same scene, see Stendhal.

Or maybe Schopenhauer.

Zeffirelli made it work in 1968.

Can anything teach so well as this the absurd vacuity of exclusive pursuit of self-interest?

As to the scoffers, Act II, scene 1, line 1.

"He jests at scars, that never felt a wound."

Romeo, a propos of nothing,  at Juliet's balcony.