According to Sartre — this was a famous polemic — Camus had now made his Thermidor (counter-revolution) by attempting to stand outside or above history;

Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”

However, especially in the Romeo and Juliet cases, they go all fan-wanky and the stories don't have the effectiveness because you recognize them as simply efforts to make a way to keep R & J alive if not happy together (often by the introduction of an OFC or OMC to replace the other character in another's life).

His [John, King of England's] Acts and Orders for the Weale-publike were beyond moſt: he being either the firſt, or the chiefeſt, who appointed thoſe noble Formes of Ciuill gouernement in London, and moſt Citties, & Incorporate Townes of England, endowing them alſo with their greateſt Franchiſes; […]