Romeo and Juliet +Julius Caesar (Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare and written about 1594–96. In literature music dance and theatre the characters of Romeo and Juliet have been widely depicted as young hero and heroine whose families are unforgiving enemies. Even today in the popular imagination they are the representative type of star-crossed lovers. Principal source for the plot of this drama was a long narrative poem by the English poet Arthur Brooke.<br>Scenes are set in Verona Italy. Juliet and Romeo meet and fall instantly in love and they profess their love when Romeo unwilling to leave climbs the wall into the orchard garden of her family’s house and fi nds her alone at her window. As their families are enemies the two are married secretly. But their rivalry aff ects the relationship of their children. Due to their families’ ongoing confl ict they cannot be together so they kill themselves because they cannot cope with being separated from one another. Thus Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story.Julius Caesar is a tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare. This tragic drama was produced in 1599–1600 and published in the First Folio of 1623. The setting of this drama takes place after Caesar has returned to Rome. Alarmed by Caesar’s ambition Cassius forms a ploy among Roman republicans and convinces Brutus—Caesar’s trusted friend—to join them. Brutus joins in the conspiracy against Caesar’s life convincing himself that Caesar’s death is for the greater good of Rome. <br>Meanwhile Alarmed by prophetic dreams Caesar’s wife Calpurnia warns her husband not to go to the Capitol the next day. A planned Caesar is slain in the Senate on March 15 “the ides of March.” Mark Antony his friend gives a stirring funeral oration that inspires the crowd to turn against them. Eventually Octavius Caesar’s nephew forms a triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus. Brutus and Cassius are eventually defeated at the Battle of Philippi where they kill themselves to avoid further humiliation. Many describe Julius Caesar a history play also as it deals with a non-Christian civilization existing several centuries before Shakespeare wrote his plays.