Writing a letter to the greatest English author of all time sounds pretty intimidating, but let's see if we can brainstorm something!
It sounds like your assignment is intended to encourage you to reflect on William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. A good place to start might be to address any questions that came up in your mind as you were reading. Maybe you were curious about why "thumb-biting" was so insulting, or perhaps you want to know why Romeo and Juliet couldn't have just run away together without the faked death? What kinds of questions came up for you in the reading? Were they resolved in the text?
You might also wish to review the play. Though Shakespeare is long dead, people can, and do, still review his work. Was there anything about the play you particularly liked or disliked? What would you have done differently? Do you think later adaptations of Shakespeare's play tell a better story than the written original? Do you think that this story is a realistic one?
Personally, I would be very curious to know what inspired Shakespeare to write this play, and how he felt when he was writing it. Romeo and Juliet is actually based on a much older Italian legend, first translated into English as The Tragical Historye of Romeus and Juliet. I wonder why Shakespeare liked this story so much to turn it into a play, when there were certainly hundreds of other legends he could have chosen. It is well known that Shakespeare often inserted (semi-)autobiographical feelings into his works, and I'd be very curious to know whether he did so for this play.
As with writing any letter, be sure to include a respectful salutation and closing.
I hope this is enough to get you started! Until a time machine is invented, I'm afraid your letter will have to wait to actually be sent.
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