Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play by William Shakespeare about two young lovers from feuding families whose doomed relationship has become one of the most famous love stories in Western literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf play
stage work
tragedy
adaptationType ballet
film
musical
opera
approximateCompositionDate 1595
author William Shakespeare
character Benvolio
Friar Laurence
Lady Capulet
Lady Montague
Lord Capulet
Lord Montague
Mercutio
Nurse
Paris
Prince Escalus
Tybalt
containsForm blank verse
prose
sonnet
countryOfOrigin England
famousLine A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
famousScene balcony scene
firstPublicationDate 1597
genre romantic tragedy
tragedy
influencedWork West Side Story
literaryCanonStatus one of the most famous love stories in Western literature
literaryPeriod English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era
mainCharacter Juliet Capulet
Romeo Montague
notableFilmAdaptation Romeo + Juliet
surface form: Romeo + Juliet (1996 film)

Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
openingLine Two households, both alike in dignity
originalLanguage Early Modern English
settingLocation Mantua
Verona
sourceAuthor Arthur Brooke
William Painter
sourceWork Palace of Pleasure
Romeo and Juliet self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
structure five acts
theme family feud
fate
individual versus society
love
violence
youth

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Angel Corella performedIn Romeo and Juliet
House of Montague appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
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House of Montague fictionalUniverse Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet universe
Lord Montague appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
Lord Montague firstAppearance Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet
Lord Montague fictionalUniverse Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet universe
Lady Montague appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
Lady Montague firstAppearance Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet, Act 1
Benvolio appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet
Benvolio appearsInAct Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet
Benvolio appearsInAct Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet
Benvolio firstAppearance Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet universe
Friar Laurence appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence firstAppearance Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
Prince Escalus appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
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Juliet Capulet appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
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Tybalt appearsInWork Romeo and Juliet
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Margot Fonteyn notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Sylvie Guillem notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Angelin Preljocaj hasWork Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Roméo et Juliette
Kenneth MacMillan notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Maurice Béjart notableWork Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo et Juliette
Romeo & Juliet (2013 film) title Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet (play)
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this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet (within the film’s fiction)
Nurse appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
subject surface form: Nurse (Romeo and Juliet)
Arthur Brooke notableWork Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet
Arthur Brooke authorOf Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet
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this entity surface form: Matteo Bandello’s tale of Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet (play)
Arthur Brooke inspired Romeo and Juliet
subject surface form: The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet (play)
Palace of Pleasure narrativeSourceFor Romeo and Juliet
William Painter sourceOfInspirationFor Romeo and Juliet
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet hasOriginalSourceTitle Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet