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  2. Star-crossed - Wikipedia

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    Star-crossed. The phrase "star-crossed lovers" was coined in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The terms " star-crossed " and " star-crossed lovers " refer to two people who are not able to be together for some reason. These terms also have other meanings, but originally mean that the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars ...

  3. Count Paris - Wikipedia

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    Created by. William Shakespeare. In-universe information. Family. Prince Escalus, Mercutio. Count Paris ( Italian: il Conte Paride) or County Paris is a fictional character in William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet. He is a suitor of Juliet. He is handsome, wealthy, and a kinsman to Prince Escalus . His name comes from the Prince of Troy ...

  4. Shakespearean tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the history of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio.

  5. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love. Romeo and Juliet have become emblematic of young lovers and doomed love. Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. On their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet use a ...

  6. English drama - Wikipedia

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    21st century. Three Girls is a three-part British television's real life drama series, written by screenwriter Nicole Taylor, and directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, that broadcast on three consecutive nights between 16 and 18 May 2017 on BBC One.

  7. Romeo & Juliet review: Tom Holland’s star-cross’d sad boy ...

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    It imposes too much on them rather than liberating them. If it had ended at the interval, it would have been brilliant. Instead, it becomes a thing of diminishing returns. Second-half scenes are ...

  8. Pyramus and Thisbe - Wikipedia

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    Pyramus and Thisbe ( Ancient Greek: Πύραμος καὶ Θίσβη, romanized : Pýramos kai Thísbe) are a pair of legendary, ill-fated lovers from Babylon whose story forms part of Ovid 's Metamorphoses. The story has been retold by many authors. Pyramus and Thisbe's parents, driven by rivalry, forbade their union, but they communicated ...

  9. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet. Three sonnets are found in Romeo and Juliet: The prologue to the play ("Two households, both alike in dignity…"), the prologue to the second act ("Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie…"), and set in the form of dialogue at the moment when Romeo and Juliet meet: