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Lots of stuff. If we didn't understand the nature of Romeo and Juliet's personalities, choices, relationship and general situation, we could not understand the play. For example, it is important to understand about Juliet that she has never left her house except to go to church and has no idea of how to maintain herself in the outside world. If she were Rosalind from As You Like It she would pack her bags and go with Romeo to Mantua. She would laugh at her father's threat to cut her off without a penny. But Juliet is very young (Shakespeare made her a younger woman than his sources did) and really cannot take care of herself. That's important to understand her behaviour. There are a myriad other things Shakespeare tells us about these characters to make their story make some kind of sense.

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