Two of them, Gregory and Sampson – hot, bored and restless – stepped out into the bustle of the piazza and swaggered about among the bright colors, the animal smells and the din of traders’ voices, hoping to find some action. It was an hour till breakfast and while the cooks sweated over the fires in the kitchen, producing mouthwatering smells of baked bread and frying bacon, the serving-men killed time as best they could. The Capulet mansion was one of the biggest – filled with servants and buzzing with preparations for the day ahead. It was a good patch, an excellent place to catch the business of those who lived and worked in the rich houses that lined Verona’s main square. Verona was coming to life: people poured out of the houses and filled the streets, while market traders set up their stalls in the grand piazza. The story of Romeo and Juliet, teenagers on opposite sides in the feud, begins on an ordinary summer’s day. He had made it clear that he would not tolerate any acts of violence between the two families. The atmosphere in Verona was always tense and Verona’s ruler had come to the end of his tether. Marriage between the young men and women of the two families was out of the question they did no business with each other, and they never mixed. Every child born into the Montague and Capulet families grew up with the feud: they were taught to hate the members of the other family. The killing stopped in time but fights continued to break out for no reason at all. That went on for many years, and eventually no-one could remember what had caused the feud. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s TaleĪ long time ago something happened between the two leading families of Verona that led their members to kill each other whenever they met. This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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