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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
Synopsis "Romeo and Juliet"
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 fi nds her alone at her window. As their families are enemies, the two are married secretly. But their rivalry aff ects the relationship of their children. Due to their families' ongoing confl ict, 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.
William Shakespeare (Stratford-upon-Avon, c. 23 de abril de 1564jul. - Ibídem, 23 de abril/3 de mayo de 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente el Bardo), se le considera el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal.
Según la Encyclopædia Britannica, «Shakespeare es generalmente reconocido como el más grande de los escritores de todos los tiempos, figura única en la historia de la literatura. La fama de otros poetas, tales como Homero y Dante Alighieri, o de novelistas tales como León Tolstoy o Charles Dickens, ha trascendido las barreras nacionales, pero ninguno de ellos ha llegado a alcanzar la reputación de Shakespeare, cuyas obras hoy se leen y representan con mayor frecuencia y en más países que nunca. La profecía de uno de sus grandes contemporáneos, Ben Jonson, se ha cumplido por tanto: "Shakespeare no pertenece a una sola época sino a la eternidad"».
