Romeo and Juliet by Elaina,Mary Thackaberry

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-20 09:29:42 UTC

15rshanahan — 2018-02-20 09:40:12 UTC

 Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616) about two young people, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love but are not able to be together. They then both commit suicide after believing each other to be dead.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:26:46 UTC

When the play was written by William Shakespeare women were not allowed to act on stage. It is believed that her character was played by a man in those days.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:28:00 UTC

Romeo's love interest at the beginning of the play is not Juliet. He was in love with Rosaline. When Romeo meets Juliet at the ball, he falls in love with her instead.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:28:36 UTC

In Romeo and Juliet when everything gets worse, is when Romeo is exiled from Verona for killing Juliet's cousin Tybalt. Juliet asks Friar Laurence to help her. The friar gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead. She takes the potion and is laid in the family crypt, but Romeo does not get the message that her death is fake. He kills himself beside Juliet's body. When Juliet awakens she sees that Romeo is dead and kills herself too.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:34:29 UTC

Romeo has become a name often used to refer to male lovers in the English language.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:36:21 UTC

Romeo and Juliet was also based on a poem about real life lovers called The Tragical History of Romeo and Juliet.

15ethackaberry — 2018-02-27 09:38:49 UTC

The settings for the production are Verona and Mantua in Italy.

15ethackaberry — 2018-03-06 09:32:18 UTC

The balcony scene has become the most famous scene in the play, when Romeo and Juliet declare their love for each other - her from her balcony and him from the ground below.

15ethackaberry — 2018-03-06 09:35:18 UTC

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15ethackaberry — 2018-03-13 09:32:37 UTC

15ethackaberry — 2018-04-10 08:16:53 UTC

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15ethackaberry — 2018-04-10 08:26:31 UTC

The Forcefulness of Love. Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play's dominant and most importanttheme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet.

15ethackaberry — 2018-04-10 08:28:07 UTC

Similarly, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are tragic but also bring new life to Verona. The Friar's own role in the play contains this ambiguity. Although he tries to help the lovers, his actions lead to their suffering. Shakespeare's message is that nothing is purely good or evil; everything contains elements of both