Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello and translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure ...
The main source for the play was the poem by Arthur Brooke entitled The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet. Brooke’s version, printed about 30 years before Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, emphasizes that Romeus and Juliet are ill-fated lovers and shows the contrast between their love ...
Some of his well-known plays include A Midsummer Night’ s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet Romeo and Juliet King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. All of his works remain popular with most of the people who enjoy reading classical English. University students who st...
aShakespeare is most famous for his plays, which have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other dramatist. Some of his well-known plays include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear...
Romeo and Juliet Ken Takiguchi From the journal Journal of World Languageshttps://doi.org/10.1080/21698252.2016.1224140Cite this Share this Abstract As a western canonical text, Shakespeare has been translated and staged in East Asia in various ways and often adapted into traditional performance ...