Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love ending with their suicides against the backdrop of a vicious family feud. It has been praised for its language and dramatic effect.. Shakespeare set the scene of the play in Verona Italy. Juliet a Capulet and Romeo a Montague fall in love at a masked ball. Because the two noble families are enemies the couple is married secretly by Friar Laurence. After Tybalt a Capulet kills Romeo’s friend Mercutio in a quarrel Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished to Mantua. Juliet's father then demands that she marry Count Paris. When Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for advice he gives her a potion that makes a person appear to be dead. He suggests that she take it and that Romeo rescue her; she agrees. Not knowing about the Friar's scheme Romeo hears of Juliet's apparent death and returns to Verona. After killing Count Paris he finds Juliet in a burial vault. He gives her a last kiss and kills himself with poison. Juliet awakens sees the dead Romeo and kills herself..