What does Verona have to do with Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

Verona, Italy is the setting because it fits perfectly with the theme. Verona has been a romantic city for hundreds of years. Castles and balconies were needed to dramaticize the play.

it is also used because the people at that time did not know about Verona and did not know what happened there and what actually could happen. This gave Shakespeare the upper hand because he could create anything in Verona that he wanted to because the audiance would believe it because they had never been to Verona

Answer 2

'Romeo and Juliet' is set in Verona in Italy. There are a number of reasons for this setting, Verona is said to be a very romantic city so it makes the romance seem more real. It is also very hot in summer which can flare peoples tempers and lead to fights - "We shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring" says Benvolio afraid a fight will break out in the mid-summer heat. The heat further ignites the passion between Romeo and Juliet so it is not only negative.

And for more reasons i cba to explain inc. narrow streets etc

Answer 3

It's an Italian story. Versions of it had been produced at various times in Italy in the early sixteenth century, and one of these was picked up and translated into French and then into English. All of these versions, including the English one which Shakespeare appearently used as his source, kept the Italian setting.

Answer 4

Shakespeare got the story of Romeo and Juliet from a poem by Arthur Brooke called Romeus and Juliet. In Brooke's poem, the story takes place in Verona, Italy. Shakespeare did not bother to change it and there was no good reason to do so.

The idea that, because Italy is known as the main country of love, Shakespeare staged it there to show that there can also be infatuation in a country of real love has little to recommend it. Had Shakespeare made some change in the setting of the story from his source, such arguments might have some force. As it is, it is clear that Shakespeare did not voluntarily choose Romeo and Juliet to be set in Italy any more than he chose Macbeth to be set in Scotland or Hamlet in Denmark.

Answer 5

Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, not Venice

Answer 6

I don't know, but it was customary to choose other places (even regions from the Antiquity) as settings in order to avoid offending his countrymen.

Answer 7

It is their place of birth and residence. It is important because Romeo was banished from Verona, and he had to be banished from somewhere.

Answer 8

That's where it is set in all his sources. The story had been retold a number of times in the sixteenth century, but since Luigi da Porta's version in 1530 it was always set in Verona, Italy.

Answer 9

Yes.