This document provides a summary of the plot of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It outlines the main characters including the feuding families of Montagues and Capulets. It describes how Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a Capulet ball but are kept apart by their families' feud. In trying to avoid her arranged marriage to Count Paris, Juliet secretly marries Romeo with help from Friar Laurence. However, misunderstandings and missed communications ultimately lead both Romeo and Juliet to take their own lives when they believe the other is dead.