Shakespeare received a good classical education as a child, but he did not go on to university studies. This period was remarkable in British history in that it was both the time of the Renaissance and the Elizabethan age (1558–1603). William Shakespeare was born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare in Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, England, on Apand died there fifty-two years later on April 23, 1616. The juxtaposition of light and dark, the injection of comic moments, and the beauty of the language of love further enhance the play and make it a classic for all time.
Interplay of fate and repeated misfortune in timing. Nonetheless, the play is considered one of the greatest love stories of all time, complicated by the The play opens with a scene of conflict between the two feuding families and ends with their reconciliation.
Romeo and Juliet is as much about hate as love. But in the twentieth century the play gained appreciation for its unique merits and became a standard of high school study and was produced in various media. For a long time, critics tended to downgrade Romeo and Juliet in comparison to Shakespeare's later tragedies. In truth, the play was experimental for its time, but it was well-received by contemporary audiences and remained popular through the centuries.
In addition, Shakespeare surrounded the innocent lovers with the mature bawdiness of other characters. In Shakespeare's hands, fashionable elements of Elizabethan drama were inserted, certain characters were magnified, and sensational scenes were added. This story had been put into verse form in 1562 by British poet Arthur Brooke. The plot was based on a fourteenth-century Italian short story, or novella, written by Matteo Bandello, that included elements of history, tradition, romance, and fable. The other tragedy, Titus Andronicus followed the conventions of Seneca and Marlowe, i.e., built around a single heroic figure, but Romeo and Juliet was innovatively different. The exact year in which William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet is unknown, but it is definitely one of his earlier works, and one of only two tragedies written in the period from 1590 to 1595.
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