Romeo and Juliet

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Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd, Jan 28, 2023 - Fiction - 188 pages

Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare and written about 1594 96. In literature, music, dance, and theatre, the characters of Romeo and Juliet have been widely depicted as young hero and heroine whose families are unforgiving enemies. Even today, in the popular imagination, they are the representative type of star-crossed lovers. Principal source for the plot of this drama was a long narrative poem by the English poet Arthur Brooke.

Scenes are set in Verona, Italy. Juliet and Romeo meet and fall instantly in love and they profess their love when Romeo, unwilling to leave, climbs the wall into the orchard garden of her family s house and finds her alone at her window. As their families are enemies, the two are married secretly. But their rivalry affects the relationship of their children. Due to their families' ongoing conflict, they cannot be together, so they kill themselves because they cannot cope with being separated from one another. Thus, Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story.

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Contents

The Prologue
A Street
A Hall in Capulets House
Capulets Garden
A Street
Friar Lawrences Cell
A Room in Capulets House
A Room in Capulets House

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William Shakespeare
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Common terms and phrases

Alack APOTHECARY aqua vitae art thou BALTHASAR banished BENVOLIO blood breath Capulet’s House County Paris cousin dead dear death doth Enter CAPULET Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE Enter JULIET Enter ROMEO Exeunt Exit eyes fair fair Verona Farewell father fear fee simple flower FRIAR JOHN Friar Lawrence’s Cell gentleman give gone grave GREGORY grief hand hate hath he’s hear heart heaven hence Here’s hither holy Juliet’s Chamber kill’d kinsman kiss LADY MONTAGUE lady’s light lips live look lord love’s Madam maid maidenhead Mantua marriage married men’s MERCUTIO mistress Montague MUSICIAN ne’er night o’er PETER pray PRINCE Prince’s quarrel Romeo and Juliet Rosaline SAMPSON SCENE SECOND SERVANT slain soul speak stay sweet tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou wilt Thursday tomorrow tonight Tybalt Verona villain WATCH We’ll weep What’s wife Wilt thou word Zounds

About the author (2023)

William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist, and actor considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. He occupies a position unique in world literature as no writer s living reputation can compare to that of Shakespeare, whose plays are now performed and read more often and in more countries than ever before. He spent his early life in Stratford-upon-Avon, receiving at most a grammar-school education, and at age 18 he married a local woman, Anne Hathaway. By 1594 he was apparently a rising playwright in London and an actor in a leading theatre company.

Shakespeare s earliest plays date from the late 1580s to the mid-1590s and include the comedies Love s Labour s Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night s Dream; history plays based on the lives of the English kings, including Henry VI, Richard III, and Richard II; and the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.

Bibliographic information

TitleRomeo and Juliet
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
PublisherDiamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd, 2023
ISBN9354863140, 9789354863141
Length188 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Juvenile Fiction / Classics
Young Adult Fiction / Classics
  
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