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Romeo and Juliet coursework Examine the role of fate in Romeo and Juliet. In Elizabethan times the people of Britain were deeply religious and superstitious. In his plays, Shakespeare uses the effect of superstition to great effect to create a dynamic mixture of emotion throughout his audiences. Shakespeare uses the fact that many Elizabethan superstitions were associated with death to great affect in many of his plays. For example, if a mirror was to fall and break in an ordinary Elizabethan household, it meant that someone in that household would soon become a victim of the grave. Another superstition is that if a corpse was being removed from a house, then it must be carried out feet first as if it were to be carried out head first then it could look back and beckon other to follow it into death. As well as being superstitious, the Elizabethans also believed deeply in...

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