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Charybdis aided her father Poseidon in his feud with her paternal uncle Zeus and, as such, helped him engulf lands and islands in water. Zeus, angry over the land she stole from him, sent her to the bottom of the sea with a thunderbolt; from the sea bed, she drank the water from the sea thrice a day, creating whirlpools.
"(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" and "Adam and Eve" were and remain popular on the Northern soul scene. [5] After a few more records that were moderate successes on the national charts, Ray Steinberg left the group for other interests. As a foursome, The Reflections continued recording and making TV appearances.
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.
Just Like Romeo and Juliet, a.k.a. Suburban Westside Story [ edit ] In 1982, Hughes scripted a comedy/romance reworking of Romeo and Juliet for Paramount Pictures set in a Chicago high school about a romance that happens in the division between two feuding groups, the Motorheads and the Sportos. [ 6 ]
Tanna (2015), the depiction of a Romeo and Juliet-like story based on an actual marriage dispute, [89] is set on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. [90] The 2017 TV series Still Star-Crossed includes brief scenes based on the original play but focuses primarily on the families after the deaths of the two main characters.
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. Romeo's body is being taken inside an ambulance with a crowd of spectators and reporters observing the incident from behind the ...
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]
Pyramus and Thisbe are usually regarded as the source for Romeo and Juliet, [3] and is featured in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Wuthering Heights , considered to be one of the greatest love stories in literary works, [ 4 ] is a tale of all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between the star-crossed Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff ...