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Much of the Drama of "Romeo and Juliet" is generated by Shakespeare's juxtaposition of love, death and violence
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Much of the Drama of "Romeo and Juliet" is generated by Shakespeare's juxtaposition of love, death and violence William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was written in the early 1590's and is still considered to be one of his finest pieces of work. The storyline is based on a translation of an Italian poem and is also influenced by tales of famous family feuds. Romeo and Juliet is a great example of an early Shakespearean tragedy and can also be related to a medieval style one, which is a calamity based on fate and coincidence. The play itself is set in the late 16th century, which was a time period in which theatre was really gaining in popularity. Romeo and Juliet tells the story in which love is thwarted by the day-to-day brutality of the family feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. It represents an example of the type of...
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