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Romeo & Juliet Facts. Click on the pictures to see facts. Fact #1. “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene.”. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1595. The play is made - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Romeo & Juliet Facts
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Fact #1“Two households, both alike in dignity,in fair Verona where we lay our scene.”
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1595. The play is made
up of 3,003 lines and has a total of 24, 023 words.
Fact #2“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”
• In the original text Romeo speaks 617 linesand Juliet speaks 542.
Fact #3“But, soft! What light through yonder window
breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
• The potion the Friar gives Juliet in the playthat makes her appear dead lasts 42 hours, long
enough to prevent her from marrying Paris.
Fact #4“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
• Throughout all of Shakespeare’s works herefers to different types of birds over 600 times.
Fact #5“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet.”
• As we look at the play in present day it may seemstrange that Juliet is marrying so young, but in
Elizabethan England the legal age for a girl to bemarried was 12 years old.
Fact #6“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet
sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
• William Shakespeare, who today is admired asone of the world literature’s greatest figures
never attended university.
Fact #7“O, I am fortunes fool!”
• The modern actress, Anne Hathaway, whostarred in The Princess Diaries movies and
Get Smart, was named after Shakespeare’s wife.
Fact #8“O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick!
Thus with a kiss I die.”
• The play’s first publication was in 1597 andit was released unauthorized and incomplete.
Fact #9“For never was a story of more woe than this of
Juliet and her Romeo.”
• When William was born there were twoShakespeare families living in Stratford. His
obviously became famous while the other did not.