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  2. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    1597 – Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet is published. The spoken prologue to the play, and the prologue to Act II are both written in sonnet form, and the first meeting of the star-crossed lovers is written as a sonnet woven into the dialogue. [46]

  3. Arthur Brooke (poet) - Wikipedia

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    The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Arthur Brooke (died 19 March 1563) was an English poet who wrote and created various works including The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare 's chief source for his tragedy Romeo and Juliet (published in 1597).

  4. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet: 1595–1596, with a possible early draft written in 1591 [13] [14] First published in 1597 in Q1 [15] First performed sometime between 1591 and March 1597 [16] Summary In Verona, Italy, two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are in the midst of a bloody feud.

  5. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with Romeo and Juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles. [209] By the time of Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mid-1590s, Shakespeare had begun to write a more natural poetry. He increasingly tuned his metaphors and images to the needs of ...

  6. Sonnet 18 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.

  7. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    The plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place over four days while Brooke's narrative takes place over many months. Little is known about Arthur Brooke. He was admitted as a member of Inner Temple on 18 December 1561 under the sponsorship of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton. [2]

  8. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Wikipedia

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    In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II [1] of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

  9. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”. [10] Petrarch wrote and revised his famous sequence Canzoniere, or Song Book, between the years of 1327 and 1374. It comprises 366 poems divided into two parts: 1–263 and 264–366.