Romeo and Juliet
Before Shakespeare's play, the story of Romeo and Juliet was an obscure tale, known in England only through a long (and rather boring) poem by Arthur Brooke. Now the young lovers are almost mythical in their "star-crossed" love.
The subjects in the following pages include:
- Is Romeo and Juliet a tragedy?
- Youth and marriage
- Queen Mab and the fates
- Feasts, revels, and masques
- Friar Lawrence's herbs and remedies
- Balconies and tombs: staging the play
See also:
- A modern text [[ Document Rom_M does not exist ]] of Romeo and Juliet.
- Old-spelling texts of Folio 1, Quarto 1, and Quarto 2.
A list of book facsimiles
that contain Romeo and Juliet.
- The essential facts about the play*
Footnotes
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Summary: facts about Romeo and Juliet
Written:1593-96
First published:
1597 (a "bad" quarto)
1599 (second quarto).
A popular play: four quartos published before the Folio in 1623.
First mention: by Francis Meres in 1598.Source:The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1552), a long poem by Arthur Brooke.