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Romeo and Juliet - Key Facts
Full Title - answer✔✔The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Author - answer✔✔William Shakespeare
Type of Work - answer✔✔Play
Genre - answer✔✔Tragic drama
Language - answer✔✔English
Time and Place Written - answer✔✔London, mid-1590s
Date of First Publication - answer✔✔1597 (in the First Quarto, which was likely an
unauthorized incomplete edition); 1599 (in the Second Quarto, which was authorized)
Publisher - answer✔✔Thomas Creede (in the Second Quarto, using the title The Most Excellent
and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet)
Climax - answer✔✔The deaths of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb (5.3)
Protagonist - answer✔✔Romeo; Juliet
Antagonists - answer✔✔The feuding Montagues and Capulets; Tybalt; the Prince and citizens of
Verona; fate.
Setting (time) - answer✔✔Renaissance (fourteenth or fifteenth century)
Setting (place) - answer✔✔Verona and Mantua (cities in northern Italy)
Point of View - answer✔✔Insofar as a play has a point of view, that of Romeo and Juliet;
occasionally the play uses the point of view of the Montague and Capulet servants to illuminate
the actions of their masters.
Falling Action - answer✔✔The end of Act 5, scene 3, when the Prince and the parents discover
the bodies of Romeo and Juliet, and agree to put aside their feud in the interest of peace.
Tense - answer✔✔Present
Romeo and Juliet - Key Facts
Full Title - answer✔✔The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Author - answer✔✔William Shakespeare
Type of Work - answer✔✔Play
Genre - answer✔✔Tragic drama
Language - answer✔✔English
Time and Place Written - answer✔✔London, mid-1590s
Date of First Publication - answer✔✔1597 (in the First Quarto, which was likely an
unauthorized incomplete edition); 1599 (in the Second Quarto, which was authorized)
Publisher - answer✔✔Thomas Creede (in the Second Quarto, using the title The Most Excellent
and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet)
Climax - answer✔✔The deaths of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb (5.3)
Protagonist - answer✔✔Romeo; Juliet
Antagonists - answer✔✔The feuding Montagues and Capulets; Tybalt; the Prince and citizens of
Verona; fate.
Setting (time) - answer✔✔Renaissance (fourteenth or fifteenth century)
Setting (place) - answer✔✔Verona and Mantua (cities in northern Italy)
Point of View - answer✔✔Insofar as a play has a point of view, that of Romeo and Juliet;
occasionally the play uses the point of view of the Montague and Capulet servants to illuminate
the actions of their masters.
Falling Action - answer✔✔The end of Act 5, scene 3, when the Prince and the parents discover
the bodies of Romeo and Juliet, and agree to put aside their feud in the interest of peace.
Tense - answer✔✔Present
