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The story of Romeus and Juliet was an Italian folk story. It was written down as a poem "Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and as a prose story, "The Palace of Pleasure", by William Painter in 1582.

Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" was written about 1591.

Romeo and Juliet is based on an actual event that happened in Verona in 1303. (You can actually go to Juliets house today and see a statue of her and you can carve your name into it.) He wrote the play about that but he developed some characters. Particularly Mercutio. Look it up on www.wikipedia.org

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.

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