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

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    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.

  3. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    However, Romeo instead meets and falls in love with Juliet. Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, is enraged at Romeo for sneaking into the ball but is stopped from killing Romeo by Juliet's father, who does not wish to shed blood in his house. After the ball, in what is now famously known as the "balcony scene," Romeo sneaks into the Capulet orchard and ...

  4. 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. [199] 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 ...

  5. Characters in Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus.

  6. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Romeo ja Julia: Ants Oras: Tartu: 1935 503905700 E-kataloog ESTER: Haitian Creole Romeo ak Jilyèt: Nicole Titus Cambridge: 2019 9781936431335 1405851643 Tagalog Ang Sintang Dalisay ni Julieta at Romeo: G. D. Roke: Manila: 1901 (published) Gutenberg: Welsh Romeo a Juliet: J. T. Jones: Carmarthen (2005 reprint) Caernarfon (2007 reprint) 1983 ...

  7. Mercutio - Wikipedia

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    When Mercutio sees Romeo the next day, he is glad to see that his friend is his old self again, and he encourages Romeo, all the while making bawdy jokes at the expense of Juliet's Nurse. After Romeo receives a death threat from Juliet's cousin Tybalt, Mercutio expects Romeo to engage Tybalt in a duel. However, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt ...

  8. Nurse (Romeo and Juliet) - Wikipedia

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    The Nurse is a character in Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, as Shakespeare's main source text.She is like family to the Capulets. The Nurse plays a similar role in the poem by Brooke, though she is less critical of Paris and is banished for the events that took place.

  9. Category:Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Upload file; Search. Search. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category lists all articles related to William Shakespeare's Romeo and ...