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  2. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet is a dramatization of Brooke's translation, and Shakespeare follows the poem closely but adds detail to several major and minor characters (the Nurse and Mercutio in particular). [23] [24] [25]

  3. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

  4. Warm Bodies - Wikipedia

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    Warm Bodies is a novel by author Isaac Marion.Described as a "zombie romance", it makes allusions to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.[1] [2] The author, based in Seattle, originally wrote a short story titled "I Am a Zombie Filled with Love".

  5. 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]

  6. Touch Not the Cat - Wikipedia

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    Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey - mentioned in a reference to Gothic fiction. Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet - the poet's 1562 work that helped inspire Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet – this work is quoted from and is made part of the plot of the novel. The line 'For lo, an hugy heap of divers thoughts arise' is quoted and Bryony then ...

  7. Romeo - Wikipedia

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    The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes.The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3]

  8. 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).

  9. Origin of the Goths - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic language, known from their bible translation and fragmentary evidence, is the only clearly attested member of what modern linguists designate as the East Germanic language family, because it was already distinct from the two Germanic families that have survived today, West Germanic and North Germanic, which were originally ...