Mark Knopfler, the songwriter, singer, and lead guitarist for Dire Straits, pulled off it off with no sweat on 1980’s “Romeo And Juliet.” To be fair, Knopfler just used those iconic names as a jumping-off point for a portrait of a modern romance that turns out to be just as star-crossed as the one by that pair from Verona. It takes a firm hand at the tiller to attempt something like that. Willy Shakes wrote so lyrically and nimbly that any imitator might come off sounding like fortune’s fool. So wherefore art all the songwriters willing to take the characters of William Shakespeare and adapt them into the rock and roll idiom? Well, it’s obvious why some would be reluctant to try it.
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