Paris is interested in marrying Juliet and is quite smitten with her—so smitten, in fact, that he is trying to persuade Capulet to let him proceed with wedding plans, even though Juliet is not even fourteen years old yet (fourteen was the minimum age of consent in the Renaissance). Capul...
Shakespeare returns to common folk, puns, and joking at the end of Romeo and Juliet, act 4, scene 5, to provide comic relief and allow the audience to process the play's intense emotions. This interlude with Peter and the musicians offers a break between Juliet's false death and Romeo h...
Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. The appeal of the young hero and heroine is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative of star-cr