Does Romeo and Juliet need an introduction? Of all Shakespeare's plays, it has been the most continuously popular since its first performance in the mid-1590's. It would seem, then, the most direct of Shakespeare's plays in its emotional impact. In this paper, the researcher examines the play Romeo and Juliet, its contents, characters, setting and theme being criticized.
During his second period, Shakespeare brought historical drama and Elizabethan romantic comedy to near perfection. Particular in his histories and comedies of this period, Shakespeare demonstrated his genius for weaving various dramatic nations into a unified plot, rather than writing a series of loosely connect episodes. Throughout the second period, Shakespeare moved steadily toward the matchless gift for characterization that marks the great tragedies he produced in the early 1600's.
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