Shakespeare is too smart for the people of today...

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet."

Juliet asks why Romeo has to be named Romeo. Not where he is.
Wherefore art thou is basically asking why are you, or for what reason?

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself."

See? WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO? then she clearly asks, WHAT'S IN A NAME? That which we call... [the dumb lady continues to speak]

It annoys me when people use the term in the wrong sense. I mean, saying you lost something in Shakespearian tongue is different than we would've thought. They'd talk of it being there, then it's gone. Or perhaps the cleaning lady took off with it...

I mean, "How art thou?" Is basically how are you? Not too shabby, eh?

Alright, let's take a different glance at this. "Wherefore art thou," spoken by Juliet but written by Shakespeare. Hamlet and the ghost, they call it an apparition. The girlfriend goes mad and sings herself to death. That's basically what happened, right? Well, she was driven mad by Hamlet, who was pretending to be crazy as to find a way to kill his uncle, who had married his brother's wife. She was sitting in a tree when it broke and she landed in the water. Finding it hopeless to struggle, she dies.

Now everyone usually asks, "Now why the hell does she just let herself die?"
Because if you look at the type of dresses they had to wear back then, getting it wet would make it weigh three times as much! She's have gotten tired and sunk before she were able to get to the bank of the river, anyway.

Alright, so not Shakespeare... I don't know why, but everyone despises him... Johnny Cash. "I fell into a burning ring of fire" So everyone knows this and they're like, Oh yeah, so Johnny boy fell in love... Well, what if I were to turn around and say something like, There's a circle of fire that I fell into! I'm pretty sure I'd get slapped by someone.

So when using the phrase, "wherefore art thou..." please make sure you use it in the correct sense. Our civilization is stupid enough as it is...