(To recapitulate our memories of studying English language in school)


ROMEO AND JULIET


William Shakespeare's classic love story of 1596


This is the story from Verona Italy

Romeo is from Montague family 

Juliet is from Capulet family

Two families hate each other highly.


Juliet is fourteen and young indeed

Parents want to get her married 

They find a rich nobleman Count Paris

To make her meet party they organise.


Romeo friends decide to attend party

They don't want to miss opportunity 

They all go in disguise though

Juliet's cousin Tybalt identifies Romeo


Romeo manages to meet Juliet

They fall in love at first sight

They decide to get married soon

Without telling families' commune.


They go to Friar Lawrence Priest

They get married in church in secret

Tybalt comes to know and gets angry

He kills Romeo's friend accidentally.


Romeo is banished from Verona city

Juliet requests Priest to help really

He gives her some drug in deceit

That puts her in a long deep sleep.


Her family invites guests for her wedding 

They go to Juliet's room to find her body lying

They all think she is really dead

They put her body in casket instead.


Priest sends message to Romeo

Romeo doesn't receive it though

He hears Juliet is dead

He comes to Juliet's tomb to shed.


He sees Count Paris and kills him 

He drinks poison and dies a victim

Juliet opens her eyes to see Romeo dead

She picks up knife to kill herself in dread.


Two families grieve over their children's death

They forget animosity to come together afresh

Parents build a huge monument in their names

'Romeo Juliet' becomes a classic among love stories.