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(Tomb of the Scaligeri, Verona, from an original sketch-Micheal Goodman)
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. It first came out in 1597 and is about the two main characters falling in love but they shouldn't be in love because of a family feud going on between the two families (the Capulets and Montagues). Along the way they get hit with misfortune after misfortune until the tragic end. one interesting things about the play is that its based off of a poem written in 1562 by Arthur Brooke called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, it might look like I horribly misspelled that but its just very old and the spelling changed over time.
The play Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona which is a town in northern italy during the year 1597 . It takes place over the time of five days. and has many scenes that take place during the night.
The plot of this book is Romeo and Juliet getting married by Friar Lawrence and planning to run away, but Mercutio and Tybalt end up dying, which then makes Romeo get exiled, and this is when Juliet plans to fake her death with a potion from Friar Lawrence that would make her body mimic death, which will make her seem dead so she doesn't have to get married to Paris. Friar John was meant to go and give Romeo a note from Friar Lawrence that was to tell him that Juliet isn’t really dead, but he ended up getting stuck on his way to Mantua from a plague of some sort that made his tracks halt. This made it so Romeo didn't know of the plan. He only hears that Juliet is dead, so he goes to the tomb to kill himself. Just before he gets into the tomb he meets Paris, who tried to kill him. He fights back, killing Paris and goes into the tomb . He then kills himself while giving Juliet one last embrace. That's when Juliet wakes up and Friar Laurence enters the tomb. Juliet ends up taking Romeos dagger and stabbing herself with it, having killed herself the people who were inside the tomb either stayed or left. After the commotion and the Capulets entering the two families, Montagues and Capulets had this speech saying how they will stop their feud and they will no longer fight. After the act of the families stopping their feud and promising to no longer fight their two kids are buried and this hence ends the book.,
Characters: Friar Lawrence, Romeo, Juliet.
Friar Lawrence is a Friar, Priest, Doctor, and Herbalist, but in the book/play he is more known as the person who married Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo Montague is one of the mainest main characters in the play, having been in the title and the main reason most people read the play in the first place. Romeo is from the Montague family and is a rival against the Capulets, though his predicament is that he loves the heir to the Capulet family Juliet. In secret Romeo married Juliet through Friar Lawrence who wanted this to possibly stop the feud between the two families, which it didn't. In the end, when Romeo thought Juliet had died, he killed himself via a poison he had bought in Mantua and killed himself where Juliet was lying.
Juliet Capulet is another one of the main characters in the play, without her the play wouldn't even be written. Juliet is from the Capulet family, one of the main families, who is rivals with the Montague family, another main family. Juliet is the heir to the Capulet family, having been the only child of Lord and Lady Capulet. Juliet was in love with Romeo as much as he was to her.
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Some of what is written was tought in my school and i dont have the sources for
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Romeo-and-Juliet
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Tragicall-Historye-of-Romeus-and-Juliet
https://shakespeareillustration.org/category/play/romeo-and-juliet/
