During his time, plays could not even be performed or portrayed if the king or queen did not like it or approve of it. William Shakespeare mainly composed plays to try and impress royalty.
When he first started writing sonnets, that led us to believe that he was in a love triangle with a young man.He wrote multiple plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and his most famous love story, Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s first play was called Henry VI,
Part II. Romeo and Juliet focused on a dynamic love story between two rival royal families: the
Montagues and the Capulet. Romeo was the son of the head Montague and Juliet was the daughter of the head Capulet. Before …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet had to hide their love for one another due to the fact that their families were not going to accept it. Juliet’s parents begin to arrange a marriage for her with a man named Paris, and on the day of the wedding, Juliet drinks a liquor that would make her
“temporarily” lie dead just to call off the marriage. Then Romeo finds out and he gets in an altercation with Paris and Romeo manages to kill him. After Romeo kills Paris, he sees Juliet lying down thinking she is dead, and then he drinks poison to die and be in heaven with his beloved, Juliet. Right when Romeo is laid to rest Juliet awakes and discovers that Romeo lies beside her dead. She then grabs his dagger and and officially kill herself. Friar Laurence, the man
Gulley 4 who encouraged the two to keep their relationship going and was actually going to marry them, confronted both families and explained what happened. This led to the Montagues and the
Capulets coming upon peace between each other. William Shakespeare’s purpose of writing
Romeo and Juliet was because he was inspired by a poem titled “Romeus and Juliet” written by
Arthur Brooks. He wrote Romeo and Juliet to show that no matter what the situation is,