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A play from Shakespeare, about sacrificial love.

i am an yr 11 student at school and to me Romeo and Juliet is a true passionate love story based on two peoples families being totailly against each other but they fall in love and get married in secret until it all goes wronge the friar pronounces Juliet dead when really she is sleeping but romeo didnt know that then he killed himself then she woke up and saw him dead when she stabbed herself in the heart

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The story of Pyramus and Thisbe, which is from Ovid's Metamorphoses and is made into a comedic play in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a story very similar in many respects to that of Romeo and Juliet, and may have served as the inspiration for it. The Romeo and Juliet story dates from approximately 1530.

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Romeo and Juliet was based on the real-life love story of two lovers who died for each other in Verona, Italy in 1303.

The Capulets and Montagues were also real people who lived in Verona at the same time as the above lovers.

Shakespeare is believed to have discovered this story in the poem "The Tragical Historye of Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke written in 1562.

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Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet was based on a poem by Arthur Brooke published in 1562.

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it is based on when people from other places wanted to marry people in a different race they wouldn't be allowed to

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It's based on a book he read called Romeus and Juliet.

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Romeo and Juliet is the play- it is by William Shakespeare.

If you mean what play is based on Romeo and Juliet, you may be thinking of West Side Story, or loads of other love stories.

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Romeo and Juliet is not based on historical events. It is based on a fictional poem which was based on a fictional novel.

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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