Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is considered one of William Shakespeare's plays, which he wrote in the period between 1594-1596, and this play was published for the first time, in a draft quarter in 1597, and a draft quarter was published after that in 1599, which was longer and more reliable than the one that preceded it, and used The editors of the first paper, the third quarter, which was based on the second quarter in 1623, and the characters of Romeo and Juliet were depicted in literature, music, theater, and dance. Shakespeare adopted it in his play, derived from the novelist poem The Tragicall History of Romeo and Juliet in 1562 by the English poet Arthur Brooke, who based his intention on a French translation of a tale written by Italian Matteo Bandello.

The story of Romeo and Juliet

The story of Romeo and Juliet begins in the streets of Verona, where there was a quarrel between members of two conflicting families, the Montague family and the Capulet family. The Capulet family plans at the same time to attend the same ball, so Romeo and Juliet meet at the party and fall in love instantly, and each of them was terrified of knowing that their love was forbidden, yet they married in secret.

Another quarrel occurred between members of the two families in the street a few days later, so a member of the Capulet family killed another member of the Montagu family, so Romeo then, in a moment of anger, killed a member of the Capulet, then fled and was prevented from entering the city of Verona, but he managed to spend his wedding night with Juliet With the help of friends, and after Romeo left the next morning, Juliet was advised to drink a potion that would make her appear dead and for Romeo to come and save her. After Juliet drank this potion of poison, Romeo came planning to save her and go live together in another city, but he He did not know at the time about this plan, so he thought that Juliet had already died, so he killed himself upon seeing her like this, so Juliet woke up, and saw Romeo dead, so she killed herself.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest writers of the English language. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, who was a wealthy glove seller, and Mary Arden, who was the daughter of a wealthy farmer. to teach Shakespeare, but it is likely that he attended the King's New School, which is the famous Stratford Grammar School, where he could have learned Latin, Greek, theology, and rhetoric, and Shakespeare may have attended plays for mobile theater groups, Which was touring Stratford in the sixties and seventies, and William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old, and had three children.