The story of Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, Italy in the year 1595 the story was written by a man called William Shakespeare. ... This tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet is written very carefully it is full of Puns and oxymoron's it also has a rising and falling of action this is a very smart technique the story starts with a lot of action to get the audience interested but then the action falls and its all talk and romance that's when the audience gets bored but then all of a sudden there is an uprising of action in Act 3 Scene 1 which gets the audience interested again there...

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Shakespeare's main source for this infamous play is Arthur Brooke's 'Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet', a long, dense poem. ... As William Shakespeare was involved in the Elizabethan era, women were raised to believe that they were inferior to men, therefore it was forbidden for women to be allowed to act on stage as it was believed to be immoral. ... Key words of the poem are connected to each other using rhyme, for example, in the third quatrain – "despair" and "prayer"; Shakespeare is referencing the tragedy yet to come for the lovers, the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate