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Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

Romantic tragedy by William Shakespeare, first performed 1594–95. The play is concerned with the doomed love of teenagers Romeo and Juliet, victims of the bitter enmity between their respective families in Verona.

Romeo and Juliet

Fantasy overture by Tchaikovsky, based on Shakespeare's tragedy. It was first performed at Moscow on 16 March 1870, and was revised in October of that same year.

Ballet by Prokofiev, first performed at Brno on 30 December 1938.

See also Giulietta e Romeo, Capuleti e i Montecchi, I.



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Miss Wilkinson oddly enough had suggested that they should read Romeo and Juliet together; but Philip had firmly declined.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
That very evening, marked by Mr Kidd for the exposition of Catastrophism, had been marked by Sir Claude Champion for an open-air rendering of Romeo and Juliet, in which he was to play Romeo to a Juliet it was needless to name.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
Belonged to the faction which affected to believe that there was no popular love for Shakespeare, to render whom palatable he arranged Romeo and Juliet for the stage, with a double denouement--one serious, the other hilarious.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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