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Details Of The Book
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publication: First published in 1597 (quarto version)
About The Author
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, who is always regarded as the greatest English language writer and dramatist. His creations include 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long Narrative Poems, etc.
His plays have been translated in every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, and also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
About The Play
Main Characters
House of Capulet
Capulet – patriarch of the house of Capulet
Lady Capulet – matriarch of the house of Capulet
Juliet Capulet – 13-year-old daughter of Capulet, the play’s female protagonist
Tybalt – cousin of Juliet, the nephew of Lady Capulet
The Nurse – Juliet’s personal attendant and confidante
Rosaline – Lord Capulet’s niece, Romeo’s love in the beginning of the story
House of Montague
Montague – the patriarch of the house of Montague.
Lady Montague – the matriarch of the house of Montague.
Romeo Montague – the son of Montague, is the play’s male protagonist.
Benvolio – Romeo’s cousin and best friend.
Ruling house of Verona
Prince Escalus – ruling Prince of Verona
Count Paris – kinsman of Escalus who wishes to marry Juliet
Others
Friar Laurence – a Franciscan friar and Romeo’s confidant.
Synopsis Of The Play
The Montagues and the Capulets are two of the great families of Verona, but these two families have an enmity. At the beginning of the play, the servants of these two families start a riot in the street. Prince Escalus intervenes to stop it and says that the troublemakers deserve to die. Later, Count Paris proposes to Capulet to marry his daughter Juliette, but Capulet asks Count Paris to wait two more years and invites him to the ball. Lady Capulet and the old woman try to convince Juliet to accept the Count’s proposal. Romeo is exiled for accidentally killing Juliet’s cousin. Finally, Juliet takes a fake poison in order to be together and plans to elope with Romeo when she wakes up. However, the person responsible for telling Romeo about Juliet’s fake death does not deliver the message in time, Romeo commits suicide because he does not want to live alone. Juliet wakes up and finds that Romeo has committed suicide and follows suit. The story ends with the reconciliation of the two families.
