Arthur Brooke wrote the poem Romeus and Juliet which Shakespeare turned into the play Romeo and Juliet.
From Arthur Brooke's poem Romeus and Juliet.
Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet.
They are based on Romeus and Juliet, the characters in a poem by Arthur Brooke called Romeus and Juliet.
The poem "The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke is believed to have inspired Shakespeare to write "Romeo and Juliet". Shakespeare adapted the poem's storyline into his famous play.
Shakespeare's main source was a long narrative poem, Romeus and Juliet, by Arthur Brooke. It was first published in 1562, two years before Shakespeare's birth.
Shakespeare's primary source for Romeo and Juliet was Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, first published in 1562, two years before Shakespeare's birth, and reprinted in 1587, about eight years before the first performance of Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare's immediate source was the poem Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke. The story was not original to Brooke, either, but had been told many times earlier by Italian writers.
Well, famously Arthur Brooke's poem Romeus and Juliet was the source for Shakespeare's play.
He got the story from a poem called Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke. Or from a book of stories called The Palace of Pleasure.
Shakespeare got the Romeo and Juliet story from Arthur Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet. In Brooke's poem the story was set in Verona, Italy. Shakespeare saw no reason to change it.
Juliet says this in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.