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Write about the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, showing that you understand some of the literary traditions and some of the social and historical background to the play. Include a comment on how the language of Shakespeare’s time affects our language today.
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Romeo and Juliet Write about the play 'Romeo and Juliet', showing that you understand some of the literary traditions and some of the social and historical background to the play. Include a comment on how the language of Shakespeare's time affects our language today. 'Romeo and Juliet' was written in 1595 and the plot was taken from Arthur Brooke's poem 'Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet' of 1562. It is set in Verona and Mantua, Italy, several centuries earlier than 1595. English people of Shakespeare's time regarded Italy as an immoral country famous for illicit sexual affairs and violent crime. Shakespeare depicts Italy thus, with duels, street fights and feuds between opposing families. There were no police to enforce law and order, but the Prince of Verona could decide the fate of criminals and others - often death or exile. Daughters belonged to their fathers, wives to husbands. Fathers and husbands...
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