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Romeo and Juliet is a dramatization of Brooke's translation, and Shakespeare follows the poem closely but adds detail to several major and minor characters (the Nurse and Mercutio in particular). [23] [24] [25]
Romeo does not see the delivered letter, however, and, believing Juliet to be dead, buys a vial of poison from an apothecary. Romeo enters the church where Juliet lies and consumes the poison just as Juliet wakes up. Distraught over Romeo’s death, Juliet picks up his gun and shoots herself in the head, falling down beside his lifeless body.
The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes.The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3]
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]
Mercutio (/ m ər ˈ k juː ʃ i oʊ / mər-KEW-shee-oh, [1] Italian: Mercuzio) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris.
Meanwhile, the Friar's letter has not reached Romeo, so Romeo believes Benvolio's news. Romeo buys poison and goes to Juliet's resting place, intending to take his own life. Paris tries to stop him but is killed in a sword fight. Romeo kisses Juliet one last time, then drinks the poison, unaware that Juliet has awakened.
Romeo kills Count Paris, [6] whom he finds weeping near Juliet's corpse, then dies by suicide, [7] by drinking poison that he bought from an impoverished apothecary, [8] over what he thinks is Juliet's dead body. Friar Laurence arrives just as Juliet awakes from her chemically induced slumber. [9]
Sonnet 118 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet.It consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet, with the characteristic rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ...