![]() Juliet awakens, sees the dead Romeo, and kills herself. He gives her a last kiss and kills himself with poison. After killing Count Paris, he finds Juliet in a burial vault. Not knowing about the friar’s scheme, Romeo hears of Juliet’s apparent death and returns to Verona. He suggests that she take it and that Romeo rescue her she agrees. When Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for advice, he gives her a potion that makes a person appear to be dead. Juliet’s father then demands that she marry Count Paris. After Tybalt, a Capulet, kills Romeo’s friend Mercutio in a quarrel, Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished to Mantua. Because the two noble families are enemies, the couple is married secretly by Friar Laurence. Later, they declare their love when Romeo visits her at her balcony in her family’s home. Juliet, a Capulet, and Romeo, a Montague, fall in love at a masked ball. Shakespeare set the scene of the tragedy in Verona, Italy. Brooke’s poem was itself based on a French translation of a tale by Matteo Bandello, a 16th-century Italian writer. ![]() Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot was a long narrative poem by the Englishman Arthur Brooke titled The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562). Romeo and Juliet was written about 1594–96 and was published in 1597. Their noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are bitter enemies, which leads the young pair to their tragic fates. The hero and heroine of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet are the representative types of “star-crossed” lovers in Western literature, music, dance, and theater. ![]()
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