Plot
The Montague and the Capulet families hate each other so much that they are constantly fighting in the streets of Verona. So Romeo Montague knows how risky it is to sneak into a Capulet party. But when he sees Juliet, it’s love at first sight, and they are prepared to risk everything to be together. They secretly marry but Romeo gets involved in a street fight and is banished. Juliet fakes her own death, but Romeo doesn’t get the message telling him that she’s not really dead.
Author – William Shakespeare
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Analysis of Romeo and Juliet
My Shakespeare – an interactive guide to Romeo and Juliet which includes the script (complete with modern English definitions of obscure words), an audio version of the original script, and videos of both sections from each play, and ‘interviews’ with the characters to further explain the action.
Themes – universal ideas
Conflict, family, fate, love, revenge, violence.
More to explore – motifs, symbols, context, setting
Apothecaries, Elizabethan period, friars, vendetta, Verona, William Shakespeare.
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