Romeo and Juliet door William Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare Title: Romeo & Juliet Title-explanation: Romeo & Juliet are the main characters: the whole story is about them, their relationship and their family. Publisher: Henry Pordes, The complete works of William Shakespeare Date of publication: 1993 Date of first publication: Somewhere in 1600 Summary: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet eachother during a party and it's love at first sight. But they can't be in love in public, because the two families have been rivals for a couple of centuries, so they keep it a secret. They also marry in secret. When the best friend of Romeo, Mercutio, get's killed in a fight between the Capulets and the Montaques, Romeo wants to take revenge and he kills Juliet's cousin Tybalt. Because of this murder, Romeo is banished from the city. When Juliet's parents want her to get married to Paris, she and Priest Laurance come up with an idea: she must take some sort of sleeping poison, so that it will look like like she is dead, but after a certain time she will wake up and she can run with Romeo. But he doesn't get her letter that explains everything, so he also believes she's dead. He can't life without Juliet, so he buys a strong poison and takes it at Juliet's grave. At his moment of dying, she wakes up, she sees his dead body and she decides to take his sort and kill herself too. Characters: Romeo Montague: In the beginning he is down and doesn't want to speak to others, because he's disappointed in a woman who dislikes Romeo. But when he meets Juliet, he forgets everything and wants to share the rest of his live with her, despite the fact that she is a Capulet. He is very passioned about her, that's why they marry very soon and he decides to kill himself when she appears to be death. But he is also a proud man who can't leave the death of his friend to be unrevanged.
Juliet Capulet: She is in love with Romeo and she must keep it a secret because of her and his parents.  She is very cautious about their relationship. But when Romeo is banished from Verone and her parents have decided that she must marry to Paris, she decides she wants to leave the family of Capulets and wants to stay with Romeo. To make that possible she takes a big risk by drinking a sleeping poison. When she wakes up and she finds Romeo, she's heartbroken, and she has got nothing left: a dead love and a family who think she's dead. Setting: Verone, Italië. It's not very important, only the relationship between those two families in that city. Point of view: There's a narrator at the beginning of the play, but the rest is in the first person Theme: 1) Love => everything is about the love between Romeo and Juliet: how they fall in love, how they meet in secret, how they get married, how Juliet tries to be with Romeo for the rest of her life and how they kill themselves because they can't live without the other. 2) Familiehate => the hate overshadows their love. It's the reason why they should keep it a secret and why Romeo loses his best friend and Juliet her cousin. And it's also the reason why they end up dead: they could not be with eachother and when the plan doesn't turn out right, is costs Romeo's death. Genre: Love story Writer's biography: William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564. Shakespeare went to the free grammar school in Stratford. It was a good school where he learned even Greek and Latin. William Shakespeare did not go to college that's why people think hasn't write his work. He started getting famous in 1592. He showed his great talent in London. In 1594 he was acting, writing and he was managing the Lord Chamberlain's Men. This group was the most famous group of their time. He wrote in London some famous musicals: As you like it, Hamlet, King Lear, Mac Beth, The Merchant of Venice, Much ado about nothing, Orthello, Richard 3 and of course Romeo And Juliet. Shakespeare was very famous but he wasn't very wealthy, he was able to buy a house, retire and live in comfort in 1611. He died in on April 23, 1616 ( his birthday). Literary period: Renaissance