Shakespeare A to Z | Romeo and Juliet
Written around 1595, Romeo and Juliet is the tragic story of two young people whose love is forbidden because of a feud between their families. It is one of Shakespeare’s earliest tragedies and is among his best-known plays. To judge from the wellthumbed pages of Romeo and Juliet in the Bodleian Library’s copy of the FIRST FOLIO, this drama was as popular among Oxford undergraduates in the 1600s as it is among young people today. The reasons are plain to see. Apart from the exquisite pathos* of the tragedy, the beautiful love poetry Shakespeare wrote for his...
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