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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BEHIND THE PLAY

"ROMEO & JULIET" BY:MARIA GODINEZ

Everyone Knows The Story Of "Romeo & Juliet".It's One Of The Most Famous and Greatest Love Stories of all time.In Which Has Various of Versions on books and Movies on it.

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet.

Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly.But fate causes them to commit suicide in despair.

But In Other Words,There May Be Things,You Did Not Know About The Play "Romeo & Juliet".And I Will Tell You 10 of those Things.

1. Shakespeare's original title for Romeo and Juliet is ” The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.”

2. Juliet was most likely played by a man because women were not allowed to act.


3.Did you know Romeo and Juliet was based on real lovers who lived in Verona, Italy who died for each other in the year 1303?

Their Real Names Were Gonozza & Mariotto

4. Juliet is only 13 at the time she meets and marries Romeo, but we never learn exactly how old he is.

5.Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet and it was the first play about romantic love.

6.Romeo and Juliet, alongside Hamlet, is probably Shakespeare’s most performed play.

7.Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical and opera.

8.Romeo and Juliet was probably written around 1594 or 1595. In 1916, a silent film version of the play was made.

9.Romeo and Juliet is the first play about romantic love, and contains the first romantic stage kiss.

10. Last but not least,The play is set in Verona,in Renaissance Italy considered the height of fashion in Elizabethan England.