The Capulets and the Montagues were two great families of a city, which had a deep feud and often fought. The Montagues have a son named Romeo, who is 17 years old, of good character, and a young man whom everyone likes. But he has a crush on Rosaline, a girl who doesn't like him, and when he hears that Rosser is going to a banquet at the Capulets' house, he decides to sneak into the banquet hall.
So Romeo, for Rosaline's sake, and his friend, to get Romeo to find a new girl and give up Rosaline, he and his friend put on masks for their own purposes and infiltrate the feast. It is at this banquet that he is captivated by Juliet, the only daughter of the Capulets. On this night, Juliet is the main character of the banquet, and at the age of 14, she is as beautiful as heaven.
Romeo went up to Juliet and expressed his love for her, and Juliet had a crush on Romeo. However, at that time, both sides did not know each other's identity. After the truth came out, Romeo still could not get rid of his love for Juliet. He went over the wall into the Capulet's orchard, just in time to hear Juliet in the window could not help but call Romeo's voice. Apparently, it was love at first sight.
The next day, Romeo went to see a priest at a nearby convent to ask for help on his behalf. The priest agrees to Romeo's request, feeling that it is a way to defuse the conflict between the two families. Romeo, through Juliet's nurse, asked Juliet to the convent and was married by the priest. At noon that day, Romeo meets Juliet's cousin Tybalt in the street.
Tybalt wants to duel with Romeo, Romeo does not want to duel, but his friends feel that Romeo has no face, so his friends and Tybalt duel, and the result is that Tybalt took the opportunity to kill. Romeo was furious and drew his sword to avenge his friend's death, so Tybalt was killed by Romeo. After much negotiation, the ruler of the city decides to banish Romeo, ordering him to be executed if he dares to return.
Juliet is devastated and she loves Romeo very much. Romeo is reluctant to leave, and it is only after the priest's persuasion that he agrees to leave for a while. That night he sneaks into Juliet's bedroom and spends his wedding night. As soon as the next day dawned, Romeo had to begin his life in exile. As soon as Romeo leaves, the noble-born Earl of Paris comes to propose again. Capulet is very pleased and orders Juliet to be married next Thursday.
Juliet goes to the priest to try to find a way out, and the priest gives her a medicine that is taken as if she were dead, but will awaken her after forty-two hours. The priest promises her to send for Romeo and will quickly dig up the tomb so that she and Romeo can go far away. Juliet acts on the plan and takes the drug on the first night of the wedding, and naturally the wedding turns into a funeral the next day. The priest immediately sends someone to inform Romeo.
But Romeo already knows the wrong news before the priest's messenger arrives. He arrives at Juliet's tomb in the middle of the night, kills Count Paris, who stands in his way, and digs up the tomb, and after he kisses Juliet, he pulls out the poison he has brought with him and drinks it all in one gulp, and collapses dead beside Juliet. By the time the priest arrives, Romeo and Paris are dead. At that point, Juliet woke up as well.
The crowd grows larger and the priest flees before he can attend to Juliet. Juliet sees the dead Romeo and doesn't want to live alone on earth, she doesn't find any poison, so she pulls out Romeo's sword and stabs herself, and falls over Romeo to die. The parents of both families come and the priest tells them the story of Romeo and Juliet. After losing their children, the parents came to their senses, but it was too late. From then on, the two families eliminated their grudges and had a gold statue of each Romeo and Juliet cast in the city.
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy written by the English dramatist Shakespeare, and is Shakespeare's first mature tragedy. Because the work is full of "spring" and "youth", it is also known as a romantic love tragedy. The play was written at the end of the 16th century, when the Renaissance was in its infancy and the feudal system was disintegrating. The emerging bourgeoisie as a new social force on the stage of history, they brought their own outlook on life, world view into history, in this period concentrated on humanist ideas.
The equally enduring classical Chinese tragedies The Peony Pavilion, The Story of the Western Wing, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Palace of Eternal Youth, and Southeast Flight of the Peacock, and so on, although they also have love as their theme, are also products of the social thinking and humanistic history of the time, a mirror peering into the society, and a manifestation of the people's desire for a better life, and the struggle for free love and the heartbeat of the people.
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Shakespeare's surviving works include 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His plays are available in translations in every major language and have been performed far more often than the works of all other dramatists.
Quotations from the Works of Shakespeare
1, The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.--William Shakespeare , "As You Like It"
A fool thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself.
--Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well"
2. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. -William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. --Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
3. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.--William Shakespeare, " Measure for Measure"
Some rise by sin, and some fall by virtue.
--Shakespeare, " One for All"
4. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.--William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
Good night! Good night! Parting is so sweetly bleak, I shall say good night till it be morrow!
--Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
5. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. --William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
What's in a name? Call a rose by any other name, and it would still be as fragrant.
--Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
6. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. --William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
--Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
7. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.-- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.--- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
--Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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