"Romeo and Juliet". Consider the Role of Fate, Fortune and the Stars in the Play

The play "Romeo And Juliet" is doubtless one of the most easily recognisable and well known pieces in all the Shakespearean works, if not the whole of English literature. Shakespeare's play is based on a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke in 1562 named 'The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet'. It has become the ultimate love story and adaptations of the play exist all over the world in many different formats. "Romeo and Juliet" is a tale of two young "star-cross'd lovers" (Prologue, L.6) who, amidst the turmoil of their feuding families, manage to sustain a relationship of true love which, ultimately, is destined for destruction. Romeo is the only son of Montague and Juliet the only daughter of Capulet; the play takes place in the Italian City of Verona.…