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  2. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love. Romeo and Juliet have become emblematic of young lovers and doomed love. Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. On their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet use a ...

  3. Pyramus and Thisbe - Wikipedia

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    Pyramus and Thisbe ( Ancient Greek: Πύραμος καὶ Θίσβη, romanized : Pýramos kaì Thísbē) are a pair of legendary, ill-fated lovers from Babylon whose story forms part of Ovid 's Metamorphoses. The story has been retold by many authors. Pyramus and Thisbe's parents, driven by rivalry, forbade their union, but they communicated ...

  4. Characters in Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet. 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 ...

  5. 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. " 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 ...

  6. Romiette and Julio - Wikipedia

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    Romiette and Julio is a young adult novel by Sharon Draper, published in 1999 by Atheneum Books. It is an updated version of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Many of the characters in Draper's novel closely parallel those in Shakespeare's play. The plot updates the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues to reflect modern racial ...

  7. Tum Teav - Wikipedia

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    Tum Teav. Tum Teav ( Khmer: ទុំទាវ [tum tiəw]; meaning " Tum and Teav ") is a mid-19th century Cambodian romantic tragedy folk tale. It is originally based on a poem and is considered the "Cambodian Romeo and Juliet " and has been a compulsory part of the Cambodian secondary national curriculum since the 1950s. [1]

  8. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Frontispiece of The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet. [1] It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived ...

  9. List of films based on Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Runaway Robots! Romeo-0 and Julie-8 (1979); animated short telling the story of two robots from rival robot manufacturing companies who fall in love; directed by Clive A. Smith (Canada) 56 csepp vér (film) (2006); Hungarian movie tells the story of Romeo & Juliet, but in the 50s in the hungarian revolution.