Girls wear fancy dresses for it and guys wear tuxedos. We'll have one at the high school this year, but I don't know if my girlfriend will want to go or if she'll think it's lame. We're not exactly the popular crowd.
Shakespeare's basically the English-speaking part of Earth's greatest playwright and poet. He wrote Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet and a bunch of other stuff that people read in school but most people don't bother with after.