There are a number of settings in Romeo and Juliet. The main action takes place in Verona, a city in Northern Italy, sometime during the 1300s or the 1400s. In terms of description, Shakespeare does not go into detail. Instead, he uses terms like a "street" or a "room."

Another city in the play is Mantua, also in Northern Italy. This is where Romeo goes when he is banished and, once again, Shakespeare refers only to a "street."

You'll notice that many of the scenes featuring the Capulet family take place in their home. Juliet, for example, is generally featured in her chamber or the orchard.

Finally, Shakespeare also sets some scenes in the play in Friar's Lawrence's cell and, for the final scene, in a churchyard.

By not providing in-depth descriptions of the settings, Shakespeare allows the reader to focus on the plot development of the play, the themes, and the relationships between the characters.

Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, Italy in the 1300s, though it was written in the 1500s. Shakespeare's Verona is not a fleshed out place as a real-life, physical city, but rather as a convenient backdrop for a crazy story line. One of the major things to note is that there are really three types of settings in the play: Romeo's settings, Juliet's settings, and Friar Lawrence's church. While Romeo has scenes outside the home with his friends (like in the very first scene), Juliet's scenes without Romeo are all confined to her home. This shows the difference in their two worlds from the start. When Romeo comes to her balcony, their two settings collide. Romeo is outside, Juliet inside, but they are beginning to intersect. The intersection of the two families is what the entire play hinges on, as it is the family rivalries which ultimately lead to Romeo's and Juliet's deaths. As far as Friar Lawrence's church, it is a place for them to come together in a neutral setting and speak freely. It is where all their plans are devised in secret from both of their respective worlds. 

The setting is the city of Verona, which is a lively and bustling city. You'll need to go through the text to find specific examples of different setting within Verona. Some examples are a marketplace and a large hall for parties.

As the Chorus tells us in the Prologue, Romeo and Juliet is set in "fair Verona," an Italian city-state split by a violent feud between its two leading families, the Montagues and the Capulets. In Verona, the Chorus says, "civil blood makes civil hands unclean." The city is ruled by Prince Escalus, a local lord.

The time the play seems to have been the fourteenth century or so, when many Italian polities were in fact divided by the kinds of vendettas portrayed in the story. However, the theme of two lovers from quarrelling families can be found in ancient Greek literature, and was certainly common in Shakespeare's own time.

There is one other city, Mantua, that plays an important role in the story. Mantua is where Romeo lives after he is banished from Verona for killing Tybalt, and an outbreak of plague in that town prevents news of Friar Lawrence's plot from reaching him. Aside from the one scene in Mantua, however, the entire play is set in Verona.

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?  

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set during the Renaissance period in Verona, Italy. The original "Romeo and Juliet" stories date to several decades prior to Shakespeare's writing and reference the couple as having lived during the twelfth century. In Italy, the Renaissance began perhaps as early as the late 13th century, lasted through Shakespeare's time, and came to a close in the 17th century. Shakespeare was writing his version of Romeo and Juliet in the 1590s, and it is safe to assume that the play is set contemporaneously or somewhat earlier than its writing. There have been attempts to narrow down the year the play is set during based on the mention of an earthquake, said to have happened eleven years prior. Some believe this earthquake was the Dover Straits Earthquake of 1580, marking the year as 1591— about when Shakespeare was writing the play.

Though the year is up for debate, we do know the play takes place during the month of July. Nurse describes Juliet's birthday, on the eve of Lammas-tide, being a little over two weeks away. From the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the harvest festival called Lammas has been fixed on the first day of August. That means the three-day course of the play is taking place around the middle of July.

As for the physical setting, we know from the Prologue that Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy. Much of the play takes place in the Capulet house, but scenes also occur outdoors in public spaces such as the market, Friar Lawrence's cell, and the Capulet family crypt.

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?  

From the chorus at the beginning of the play we learn that the setting is the fair city of Verona, in Italy.  The location is likely less important than the fact that you have two of the noble families of the town at each others' throats.  The Montagues and the Capulets have been feuding for quite some time, and their feud has seriously disrupted the peace of the city and is the major cause of any action.

As with many of Shakespeare's plays, the action begins quickly with this first quarrel, as it frames the themes and some of the setting quite well and also draws the audience in to this roiling town in the midst of a heat wave and a bitter feud.

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?  

The setting is Verona and Mantua, Italy, during the fourteenth or fifteenth century.

What are two settings in the play Romeo and Juliet?

One critical setting of the play is the church. This setting is especially important because it is the neutral ground where Romeo and Juliet can meet. Not only is the church a neutral turf for both Montagues and Capulets, but it also is where the masculine and feminine worlds overlap. Consider: Romeo is always shown out on the streets of Verona. In the play (and in life, at certain times in history), the public world was a world mostly of men. They could go out to conduct business, get a drink, etc, while women were expected to be at home. Of course, that is where we see Juliet for most of the play, either in her family's house or her bedroom or her balcony. The only time we see her out in public is at church. 

Aside from being a setting where different worlds can overlap, the church is ironically a setting for some questionable decisions. Friar Lawrence chooses to marry Romeo and Juliet there, despite knowing the families would object. Here is also where he gives Juliet the advice and medicine to make her appear dead. Some of the critical choices that lead to the tragedy take place in this important setting.

A second important setting for the play is the Capulet's tomb. Like the church, there is some irony here. While the tomb is initially a horrifying setting of violence and death (consider the fight between Romeo and Paris and Romeo and Juliet finding each other's corpses) and a spooky place (think of Friar Laurence getting scared off when Juliet doesn't follow him out). However, it also becomes a place of forgiveness and reconciliation, as the two families vow to bury their feud with their children. 

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?

The Prologue explains that the play is set in Verona, Italy. In fact, you might think of the Prologue as a "cheat sheet" for the whole play. It tells you the setting and the most important parts of the plot:

  Two households, both alike in dignity, 
   In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 
   From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 
   Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 
   From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 
   A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 
   Whole misadventured piteous overthrows 
   Do with their death bury their parents' strife. 
   The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, 
   And the continuance of their parents' rage, 
   Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, 
   Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; 
   The which if you with patient ears attend, 
   What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Some of the action also takes place in Mantua, another city in Northern Italy.  Shakespeare doesn't tell us what year the play takes place, but based on the names and governments of the Italian city-states, it is sometime in Renaissance Italy -- fourteenth or fifteenth century (1300s-1400s).