Romeo & juliet

1. ROMEO & JULIET

2. 1.Book details Title : Romeo and Juliet . Author : William Shakespeare. Original published : 1597. Publisher: Burlington Books . Setting : Verona, Italy .

3. 2. Author : William Shakespeare 1564- 1616 Stratford-upon-Avon , United Kingdom . † He was a playwriter , a poet and an E nglish actor. He wrote Macbeth , Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet , Julius Caesar , The M erchant of Venice and Henry IV. He had seven brothers and his parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden . He married to Anne Hathaway and they had a girl and twins .

4. 3. Characters Prince Esclaus Count Paris Mercutio Ruling House of Verona

5. House of Capulet Lady Capulet Capulet The Nurse Juliet Tybalt Rosaline Servants

6. House of Montague Lady Montague Montague Romeo Benvolio Servants

7. Friar Laurence Friar John An Apothecary Other Characters

8. 4. Summary of the story Two families enfronted . Count Paris wanted to marry Juliet . Romeo fell in love when he saw Juliet at the ball. Romeo promised his love to Juliet . Friar Laurence accepted to marry them . In the story there were deads and fights .

9. Romeo fled outside Verona. Juliet had to marry Count Paris but she didn’t want to do it. Juliet drank a potion to simulate her death . Romeo heard that Juliet had died . He went to Verona. When Romeo saw Juliet , he wanted to die too . Then , Juliet woke up and saw that Romeo was dead . She killed herself .

10. 5. Personal opinion . We already knew the story about Romeo and Juliet . The story has sadness , emotion and love . We recomend this book to everybody . We think that Shakespeare was a very good writer and he had a lot of nice and interesting books .

11. 6. Other things The book is formed by five acts . It has got approximately 40 pages . The book has got a lot of beautiful pictures . It has also got vocabulary for dificult words and some exercices . The vocabulary of the story isn’t difficult . A t the begining of the book there’s a little introduction in different languages .

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