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  2. Star-crossed - Wikipedia

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    The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. [5] The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. [5] Venus and Adonis is a classical myth during the ...

  3. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical, and

  4. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Wikipedia

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    In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II [1] of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

  5. A plague o' both your houses! - Wikipedia

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    The phrase is spoken in Act 3, Scene 1 of the tragedy. Tybalt, a kinsman of the Capulets and cousin to Juliet, is dueling with Mercutio, a friend of Romeo from the Montague family. Romeo and Benvolio attempt to break up the fight. Mercutio, distracted, does not see his opponent and is fatally wounded by Tybalt under Romeo's arm.

  6. Queen Mab - Wikipedia

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    Queen Mab, illustration by Arthur Rackham (1906). Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which the character Mercutio famously describes her as "the fairies' midwife", a miniature creature who rides her chariot (which is driven by a team of atom-sized creatures) over the bodies of sleeping humans during the nighttime, thus helping them "give birth ...

  7. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Romeo ja Julia: Ants Oras: Tartu: 1935 503905700 E-kataloog ESTER: Haitian Creole Romeo ak Jilyèt: Nicole Titus Cambridge: 2019 9781936431335 1405851643 Tagalog Ang Sintang Dalisay ni Julieta at Romeo: G. D. Roke: Manila: 1901 (published) Gutenberg: Welsh Romeo a Juliet: J. T. Jones: Carmarthen (2005 reprint) Caernarfon (2007 reprint) 1983 ...

  8. Characters in Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Count Paris - Wikipedia

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    A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet ' s final scene forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. This version has a happy ending: Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Paris are restored to life, and Benvolio reveals he is Paris' love, Benvolia, in disguise. [16]