How Did Shakespeare Write Romeo And Juliet

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Shakespeare’s Inspiration to Write Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright in England and one of the owners of the Global Theatre in England, wrote Romeo and Juliet in 1596 and finished it in 1597. Most of his works were printed and published after he died, so his works fulfilled mysteries and led to a strong curiosity about his life and details of causing his death. Arthur Brooke’s description of the characters and plots in his poem“ The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet” totally attracted Shakespeare in 1596 and led him came up a idea to start writing a play about two ill-fated lovers in Verona, naming Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is one of his most famous works that helped him spread the brilliant literature in that era and also deeply influenced the course of western culture and literature. Shakespeare used his own way to restructure Brooke’s tedious poem that contains the potential for a play with compassion and conflict, which became Shakespeare’s direct source, to a precious and classical work. In 1596, when he was working on viewing plays and sonnets, a copy of a 3020-line narrative poem by Arthur Brooke named “ The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet”, publishing in 1592, attracted him. William Shakespeare felt …show more content…

Blakemore Evans stated that Romeo and Juliet is "unusually full, perhaps more so than any other Shakespearean play, of words like time, day, night, today, tomorrow, years, hours, minutes and specific days of the week, giving us a sense of events moving steadily and inexorably in a tight temporal framework"(American Repertory Theater). Shakespeare wrote it in full knowledge and told us an old, clichéd story in an innovative and novel way. Although his idea got from Brooke, he deeply felt the characters’ emotions and set himself implicitly the task of telling a love story. William Shakespeare laid a valuable foundation for the literary career, and influenced the people and the generations after

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