He translated it from an Italian version of the story.
Shakespeare's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet was the poem "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet." This poem was written by Arthur Brooke and was a translation of Italian Matteo Bandello's original story. Both works illustrated the love story of two real people who lived in Verona. Shakespeare's main source was Brooke's poem; he didn't use Bandello's original.
Shakespear wrote initanaly the "first copy" of Romeo and Juilet. but there is known to have different verisons and didfferent copies but mainly all lead back to Shakespears first idea of the play when 2 star crossed lovers have had enough of the feud from there families. so at the end they decide to take there own life.
The story of Romeo and Juliet we are familiar with is from a play written by William Shakespeare late in the 16th century. But Shakespeare did not make up the story, he got it from a poem by a guy called Arthur Brooke. And Brooke got the idea from an older story, and that story got it from an even older story. Each time the story changed a little. Which one was first? It depends on what counts as "first".
The tragic story of star crossed lovers who die because of miscommunication is ancient, I think the oldest version being about Pyramus and Thisbe. So although Shakespeare was the one who wrote the play and the specific words and verse, he got the idea for it from a very similar poem written by Arthur Brooke in 1582.
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The plot of the play Romeo and Juliet was not actually an original to William Shakespeare. "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke is supposedly where he got the story. However, Brooke borrowed the story too. In fact it is fair to say that every version of Romeo and Juliet that we know of borrowed most of its plot from an earlier source.
Shakespeare's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet was the poem "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet." This poem was written by Arthur Brooke and was a translation of Italian Matteo Bandello's original story. Both works illustrated the love story of two real people who lived in Verona. Shakespeare's main source was Brooke's poem; he didn't use Bandello's original.
Shakespear wrote initanaly the "first copy" of Romeo and Juilet. but there is known to have different verisons and didfferent copies but mainly all lead back to Shakespears first idea of the play when 2 star crossed lovers have had enough of the feud from there families. so at the end they decide to take there own life.
Umm, where did you get that idea? We have no idea how long it took Shakespeare to write his play. Or how long it took Arthur Brooke to write his poem. Perhaps you are thinking of some other Romeo and Juliet, in which case you should specify.
Shakespeare actually got the idea from the greek myth, Pyramus and Thisbee. Basically, Pyramus and Thisbee couldn't be together because their parents forbade it. They communicated through a chink in the wall dividing them, and arranged to meet near a mullberry tree whose berries were at first white. Thisbe arrives first, sees a lioness, drops her cloak in alarm and runs away. Pyramus finds Thisbees' cloak and thinks the lion ate her. He then kills himself in grief. When Thisbee returns, she sees Pyramus dead, so she kills herself, too. Their blood changes the tree's white berries to red. Although Shakespeare was familiar with the Pyramus and Thisby story from school, his actual source for Romeo and Juliet was Arthur Brooke's poem Romeus and Juliet, which mirrors the plot of Shakespeare's play much more closely. Brooke's poem is derived from a series of Italian stories, themselves ultimately based on Pyramus and Thisby.
It sounded like a good idea for a play when he read Brooke's poem, and a good play would make him money.
It's hard to say exactly as the origins of this play are somewhat obscure. However, it would appear that he started with a story set in Portugal and tweaked it using other works he had come across. One of the works he might have used is Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, which he used some years later as the main source for Romeo and Juliet. Some elements (the rope ladder and a friar called Laurence, for example) look like they may have come from Brooke, and he may have got the idea of resetting the story in Verona from the same place. However, the fact of the matter is that only the beginning of the play is set in Verona; most of it takes place in Milan.
The story of Romeo and Juliet we are familiar with is from a play written by William Shakespeare late in the 16th century. But Shakespeare did not make up the story, he got it from a poem by a guy called Arthur Brooke. And Brooke got the idea from an older story, and that story got it from an even older story. Each time the story changed a little. Which one was first? It depends on what counts as "first".
The first character to mention the idea of marriage in "Romeo and Juliet" is Lady Capulet, who discusses the prospect of Juliet marrying Paris with her daughter.
The tragic story of star crossed lovers who die because of miscommunication is ancient, I think the oldest version being about Pyramus and Thisbe. So although Shakespeare was the one who wrote the play and the specific words and verse, he got the idea for it from a very similar poem written by Arthur Brooke in 1582.
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Juliet initially agrees to consider her mother's idea of marriage, but ultimately falls in love with Romeo and chooses to defy her parents' wishes by marrying him in secret.