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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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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Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) basedOn Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
Lady Capulet appearsIn Romeo and Juliet
Lady Capulet fictionalUniverse Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet universe
Thomas Kent relatedWork Romeo and Juliet
this entity surface form: Romeo and Juliet (within the film)
Norma Shearer notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Geoffrey Owens notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Dorothy Tutin notableWork Romeo and Juliet
Gugu Mbatha-Raw theatreWork Romeo and Juliet
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak inspiredBy Romeo and Juliet
Condola notableWork Romeo and Juliet
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