  "star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. the term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship.levenson (ed.), jill l. (2000). romeo and juliet, the oxford shakespeare (oxford world's classics). oxford: oxford university press. page 142 isbn 0-19-281496-6. astrological in origin, the phrase stems from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play romeo and juliet by the elizabethan playwright william shakespeare. such pairings are often said to be doomed from the start. ==definitions== the phrase was coined in the prologue of shakespeare's romeo and juliet: "from forth the fatal loins of these two foes,a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" (5â6).full text / script of the play romeo and juliet act i by william shakespeare it also refers to destiny and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing each other. it usually but not always refers to unlucky outcomes, since romeo and juliet's affair ended tragically. further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally. ==famous examples==   examples of famous star-crossed lovers vary in written work. pyramus and thisbe are usually regarded as the source for romeo and juliet, featured in a midsummer night's dream, and catherine earnshaw and heathcliff from wuthering heights are considered one of the greatest love stories in literary works. in wuthering heights, the narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between heathcliff and catherine earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. lancelot and guinevere are often remembered for their affair. guinevere was the q
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