Money. Shakespeare's object in writing plays was to have something fresh which would bring in some paying customers to the theatre which he partly owned. In those days, plays did not have long runs...
By Mercutio's willingness to fight Tybalt, the impatience that leads to his murder by Tybalt, a chain of events is set in motion that results in the ultimate deaths of Romeo and Juliet. It is his...
Leonard Whiting plays Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 movie of Romeo and Juliet. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in the 1996 Baz Luhrman movie. He has also been played on film by Leslie Howard,...