This document provides background information on William Shakespeare and his famous play Romeo and Juliet. It notes that Shakespeare abandoned his family at age 22 to seek fortune in London, where he became a theater producer and playwright. One of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet, tells the story of two young lovers from feuding families in Verona, Italy who fall in love but face tragedy. The document also provides some context about the city of Verona and how Shakespeare may have been inspired by other writers' works in setting Romeo and Juliet there, though he likely never visited.

1. Romeo and Juliet – W.
Shakespear
Verona ( Italy )

2. William Shakespeare
(Stratford-on-Avon 1564-1616)
• He doubtless was one of the
biggest and valued playwright of
all times
• At the age of 22 abandoned the
family to search fortune, and go
to London. Where he became a
theatre producer and an author
of texts.
• Thanks to the support of the
Duke of Southampton, in 1599
Shakespeare became the owner of
the Globe Theatre, where he
represents he his texts.

3. Romeo and Juliet are a
young boy and a young
girl that fall in love during
a dance, but they belong
from two different
enemies families,
Romeo’s from Montagues
and Juliet’s from
Capulets.

4. Romeo listend to Juliet’s
pronouncement and he
offerts a secret wedding but
the day they have to marry,
he gets involved in a brawl
and because of the anger of
the death of a friend he kills
Juliet’s cousin.

5. When he gets discovered he
has to escape to Mantova,
meanwhile Juliet has to marry
an old gentleman, but she drink
a narcotic that makes her seem
death for 40 hours.

6. Friar Lorenzo order to give the news to Romeo to
escape with Juliet, but the messanger doesn’t
arrive to Romeo who thought that Juliet was death,
so he stricken by the struggle commits suicide with a
strong poison that make him die near his secret
bride. When Juliet wake up and see him, she
pierces herself with a dagger.

7. END.

8. VERONA

9. Verona is one of the Italian cities
that are considerated love’s city
fo the novel “Romeo and
Juliet”. Shakespear has even
nevers visited the city but knew
it by the writers Luigi Da Porto,
Masuccio Salernitano and
Matteo Bandello, that inspired
him. They entere story of
“Romeo and Juliet” is a fiction,
and everyone knows it. And also
know that the balcony has never
existed still 1935.

10. Shakespear pictured
Verona like Venice for the
channels and the gondolas,
maybe for the Venetian
painters at the court of
London. This is the reason
why he decide to set his
stories. “The gentleman of
Verona” and “The shrew
shrewish”, were set in
Padova.