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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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    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Romance (love) - Wikipedia

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    Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.

  7. Friar Laurence - Wikipedia

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    Friar Laurence is a friar who plays the part of a wise adviser to Romeo and Juliet, along with aiding in major plot developments.. Alone, he foreshadows the later, tragic events of the play with his soliloquy about plants and their similarities to humans. [1]

  8. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Wikipedia

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    In scene 4, Romeo and Juliet enter the masked ball, sulking at each other. Romeo thinks that Tybalt is Constance and puts his hand on Tybalt's bottom. Constance enters, and Romeo tells her that he loves her. Tybalt sees Romeo kiss Constance and sends Juliet to interrupt them. Romeo introduces Constance to Juliet, and Juliet falls in love with her.

  9. 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 ...