{"id":4282,"date":"2016-01-19T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:06:45","slug":"romeo-and-juliet-by-william-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/romeo-and-juliet-by-william-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Romeo_and_juliet_brown-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Romeo and Juliet Quotes\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Romeo_and_juliet_brown-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Romeo_and_juliet_brown-1-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Romeo_and_juliet_brown-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. \u00a0No one knows when Shakespeare wrote the play, but it first appeared in print in 1597.<\/p>\n<p>The play features two star-crossed lovers whose deaths reconcile their feuding families. \u00a0It was among Shakespeare&#8217;s most popular plays during his lifetime. \u00a0Along with <em>Hamlet<\/em>, it is one of his most frequently performed plays.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?<br \/>\nIt is the East, and Juliet is the sun!<br \/>\nArise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,<br \/>\nwho is already sick and pale with grief<br \/>\nThat thou her maid art far more fair than she.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Romeo and Juliet\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=William Shakespeare\">William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Romeo%20and%20Juliet\">Quotes from <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=romeo%20and%20juliet&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aromeo%20and%20juliet&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;linkId=E5FNV3NCK26ILCFS\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> at Amazon.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=litquotes-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2014\/10\/romeo-and-juliets-balcony-scene-doesnt-exist\/381969\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare didn&#8217;t even know what a balcony was\u2014so how did one end in his most famous scene?<\/a>\u00a0~\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.  No one knows when Shakespeare wrote the play, but it first appeared in print in 1597.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,375,142],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-1title","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}