Prince of Cats is the B side to Shakespeare’s Romeoand Juliet, played at an eighties block party in a NY where underground sworddueling blossomed alongside hip-hop,
punk, disco and no wave. It’s the story ofthe minor players with Tybalt at the center. Like Shakespeare’s originals,Prince of Cats implements various formalist restraints. The definitive
printingof Ronald Wimberly’s critically acclaimed first work, presented as intended forthe first time.