William Shakespeare's masterwork, "Romeo and Juliet," is unabashedly a tragedy. ... For example, when Romeo and Juliet first meet each other in act two, they are immediately intrigued by one another. ... Obviously, this adds more complications to Romeo and Juliet's already troubled relationship. ... "Unfortunately, Juliet wakes up too late, and awakes to find her Romeo dead. ... Even though the play ends on a somewhat positive note, it still doesn't lessen the true extent of the tragedy that the feud actually caused in the first place In conclusion, Shakespeare's theatrica...

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The theater was Paul's secret love; between theater visits was "noting but sleep and forgotten" (Cather 253). ... I observed a correlation between Willa Cather's Paul's Case and William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet their love for each other is forbidding by their respected families. ... In the end the tragic death of Romeo is accompanied by the dramatically tragic death of Juliet. I find Paul to be befitting of the role of Romeo and his forbidding love for the theater to play his Juliet. ...

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