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Romeo And Juliet

English Coursework: Shakespeare

Knowledge of the play

Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet was based on a poem about an Italian couple.
Shakespeare based "Romeo and Juliet" on a long, boring poem by Arthur Brooke called "The Tragical Historie of Romeus and Juliet." But Brooke's poem was based on a French story by Pierre Boaistrau, and this story was taken from Italian writer Matteo Bandellom, whose story is supposedly a true account from the 11th century. And this chain continues back all the way to a Greek story from around the year 400 A.D.

Introduction
‘Romeo and Juliet' was set in Verona in Italy.
I believe that Shakespeare set this play in Verona
Because the play was originally based on a poem
Of an Italian couple ‘Romeus and Juliet'
I think that Shakespeare did not want to ruin the
Italian setting and so set his play in Verona Italy.
This is a very nice area to set the play but I do not think that Shakespeare could of set the play as well as it could have......


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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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