Whatever (I Had a Dream) Performed and Written by Butthole Surfers.35 in D major Haffner Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture 9 35. Des'ree appears courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. Vocals produced by Des'ree and Tim Atack. Produced by Nellee Hooper.

The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.

David Garrick's 18th-century version also modified several scenes, removing material then considered indecent, and Georg Benda's Romeo und Julie omitted much of the action and used a happy ending. During the English Restoration, it was revived and heavily revised by William Davenant. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play.Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical, and opera venues. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality, however, and later editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare's original.Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure (especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story) has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. Believed to have been written between 15, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597.

Capulet is the patriarch of the house of Capulet. Mercutio is another kinsman of Escalus, a friend of Romeo. Count Paris is a kinsman of Escalus who wishes to marry Juliet. Prince Escalus is the ruling Prince of Verona. In the 20th and into the 21st century, the play has been adapted in versions as diverse as George Cukor's 1936 film Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version Romeo and Juliet, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet. John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama.

Peter, Sampson, and Gregory are servants of the Capulet household. Rosaline is Lord Capulet's niece, Romeo's love in the beginning of the story. The Nurse is Juliet's personal attendant and confidante. Tybalt is a cousin of Juliet, the nephew of Lady Capulet. Juliet Capulet is the 13-year-old daughter of Capulet, the play's female protagonist.

Friar John is sent to deliver Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo. Friar Laurence is a Franciscan friar and Romeo's confidant. Abram and Balthasar are servants of the Montague household. Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and best friend. Romeo Montague, the son of Montague, is the play's male protagonist. Lady Montague is the matriarch of the house of Montague.

Lady Capulet and Juliet's Nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship.Meanwhile, Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo, Montague's son, about Romeo's recent depression. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter Juliet, but Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Oil on canvas, 1823.The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. A Chorus reads a prologue to each of the first two acts.L'ultimo bacio dato a Giulietta da Romeo by Francesco Hayez.

Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, is enraged at Romeo for sneaking into the ball but is only stopped from killing Romeo by Juliet's father, who does not wish to shed blood in his house. However, Romeo instead meets and falls in love with Juliet. Persuaded by Benvolio and Mercutio, Romeo attends the ball at the Capulet house in hopes of meeting Rosaline.

Still believing Juliet to be dead, he drinks the poison. Believing Romeo to be a vandal, Paris confronts him and, in the ensuing battle, Romeo kills Paris. He encounters Paris who has come to mourn Juliet privately. Heartbroken, Romeo buys poison from an apothecary and goes to the Capulet crypt. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt.The messenger, however, does not reach Romeo and, instead, Romeo learns of Juliet's apparent death from his servant, Balthasar. The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan so that he can rejoin her when she awakens.

The families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud. Friar Laurence recounts the story of the two 'star-cross'd lovers'. The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all three dead.

Salernitano sets the story in Siena and insists its events took place in his own lifetime. Allied to rival political factions, the parties are grieving ('One lot already grieving') because their endless warfare has led to the destruction of both parties, rather than a grief from the loss of their ill-fated offspring as the play sets forth, which appears to be a solely poetic creation within this context.The earliest known version of the Romeo and Juliet tale akin to Shakespeare's play is the story of Mariotto and Ganozza by Masuccio Salernitano, in the 33rd novel of his Il Novellino published in 1476. History records the name of the family Montague as being lent to such a political party in Verona, but that of the Capulets as from a Cremonese family, both of whom play out their conflict in Lombardy as a whole rather than within the confines of Verona. One of the earliest references to the names Montague and Capulet is from Dante's Divine Comedy, who mentions the Montecchi ( Montagues) and the Cappelletti ( Capulets) in canto six of Purgatorio: Masuccio Salernitano, author of Mariotto & Ganozza (1476), the earliest known version of Romeo & Juliet taleHowever, the reference is part of a polemic against the moral decay of Florence, Lombardy, and the Italian Peninsula as a whole Dante, through his characters, chastises German King Albert I for neglecting his responsibilities towards Italy ('you who are negligent'), and successive popes for their encroachment from purely spiritual affairs, thus leading to a climate of incessant bickering and warfare between rival political parties in Lombardy. The Ephesiaca of Xenophon of Ephesus, written in the 3rd century, also contains several similarities to the play, including the separation of the lovers, and a potion that induces a deathlike sleep. One of these is Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contains parallels to Shakespeare's story: the lovers' parents despise each other, and Pyramus falsely believes his lover Thisbe is dead.

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