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Count Paris (Italian: il Conte Paride) or County Paris is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is a suitor of Juliet. He is handsome, wealthy, and a kinsman to Prince Escalus. His name comes from the Prince of Troy, Paris, in Homer's Illiad.
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus.
Paris is a suitor to Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. He is killed by Romeo. Paris' Servant has a clownish exchange with Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida. For Paris' Page (in Romeo and Juliet), see Page. Parolles is a cowardly braggart soldier, a companion of Bertram, in All's Well That Ends Well. For Parson Hugh see Sir Hugh Evans.
A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet 's final scene (with a happy ending, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Paris restored to life, and Benvolio revealing that he is Paris's love, Benvolia, in disguise) forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. [144]
Olivia Hussey, who mesmerised audiences as the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has died aged 73. The news was shared from her official Instagram account ...
Pages in category "Characters in Romeo and Juliet" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Count Paris; R. Romeo; Rosaline; T. Tybalt
Olivia Hussey, the scene-stealing star of the 1968 film "Romeo & Juliet," died at 73 on Dec. 27.. Hussey, who shot to fame as a star in the '60s film and later became an animal rights activist ...
The director behind a new production of Romeo & Juliet is condemning the "barrage of deplorable racial abuse" seemingly directed at Tom Holland's co-star, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, after she was ...