“Romeo and Juliet”, written by William Shakespeare, speaks about the contrast between two important families of Verona: the Couplets and the Montagues, and the love between their two children: Romeo and Juliet. They first meet at a masked ball given by the Couplets, in which Romeo manages to secretly enter. In the famous “balcony scene” Romeo overhears Juliet speaking to herself, saying that she has fallen in love with Romeo. With Friar Lawrence’s help the two lovers are secretly married the next day. Unfortunately, the same day Romeo gets involved in a fight in which, his friend Mercutio is murdered by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. Romeo avenges Mercutio’s murder by killing Tybalt, and he’s then banished to Mantua. In the meantime Juliet’s father wants her to marry Count Paris; but, with Friar Lawrence’s help, she drinks a potion that will give her the appearance of death for 40 hours and after her awakening Romeo will take her to Mantua. The Friar plans to tell Romeo about the strategy. But the message fails to reach Romeo in time and Romeo, believing Juliet dead drinks a poison and dies; when Juliet wakes up, finding Romeo dead, she takes his knife and kills herself. In the last scene the two families, united by this tragedy, are reconciled.
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