Name: Jhon Isaac S.

Alegre

STEM 11-B

Synchronous

EAPP

Romeo and Juliet(summary)

Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet was composed around 1594–96 and first published in an
unlicensed quarto in 1597. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), a long narrative poem by
English poet Arthur Brooke, based on a French translation of a tale by the Italian Matteo Bandello, was
Shakespeare's primary source for the storyline.

At the Capulets' masked ball, Juliet and Romeo meet and fall in love right away. Their well-to-do families
are feuding, and Friar Laurence discreetly marries them. Juliet seeks the assistance of a friar as her
father arranges her marriage to Count Paris. Laurence gives her a medicine that causes her to appear
dead, and Romeo is dispatched to save her. She goes along with it. Romeo, on the other hand, returns
to Verona after learning of Juliet's apparent death, but being uninformed of the friar's ruse due to the
failure of a letter to reach him. At Juliet's tomb, he confronts a grieving Paris, kills him reluctantly when
Paris tries to prevent Romeo from entering the tomb, and discovers Juliet in the burial vault. He kisses
her one more time before poisoning himself. Juliet wakes up, realizes Romeo is dead, and kills herself.
When the families discover what has happened, they are able to put an end to their animosity.