Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Synopsis:

This is a play about feuding families and star-crossed lovers. It is set in Verona, Italy. The Montague and Capulet families are involved in a family feud. Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet at a ball, hoping to meet Rosaline, and falls in love with Juliet.

They are secretly married with the help of Friar Lawrence and are torn apart by the families’ feud. They end up taking their own lives. The themes include love and fate, and love and violence.

Review:

I enjoyed this play and found it to be very romantic and beautiful.

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”