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ROMEO AND JULIET One of Shakespeare's most well known plays is Romeo and Juliet; it is a romantic tragedy a favoured genre in Elizabethan times. This play was written in 1593. The romantic tragedy begins with a prologue telling you what happened, what is happening, and what's going to happen. The prologue says that the two households (Montague & Capulet) have been fighting since ancient times and has broken into new mutiny, but the only children of these two households fall in love, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Their love cannot be because the houses are at war. The reason behind telling the audience what's going to happen is because, like the blurb of a book a person may want to know what's the basic outline of the story but in this case the play, if a prologue does not appeal to somebody then they will leave before the play actually starts. To...

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