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Despite what you may have read, Romeo and Juliet was not based on two real lovers who died for each other. It was a story adapted from a story originally told about two people in Mantua which was ultimately based on the old Latin story of Pyramus and Thisbe. The details changed every time it was told.

Many other plays were based on old stories some of which are clearly fictional and others are legendary and so have only the slightest relationship to historical reality. Some of those with a legendary background are King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida.

Some of the plays, however, are based on actual history as it was understood by the historians of Shakespeare's day, particularly Raphael Holinshed. His Chronicles form the basis of the ten history plays and also of Macbeth. Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are also based on real events.

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