Show The History of the Story of Romeo and Juliet WHO does not know the story of Romeo and Juliet Who knowing itcan itcan it itcan can fail to appreciate anything so full of beauty and love It owes owes owes' its warmth and life to the fact that it is a Southern tory story Italy was the inventor of the tale it breathes the very spirit of her national records her old family feuds the amorous and broody bloody intrigues which f fill I her annals There are several other dramas besides besides besides be be- sides Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet founded upon the same subject It has furnished an outlet for the poetry inspirations inspirations inspirations rations and lofty thoughts of some most noted writers As the results we have the novels by byDa byDa byDa Da Porto and Then there are Spanish productions one by Lope de Vega and another another by Fernando Fernando Fernando Fer Fer- nando Roxas It is said that the latter approaches nearest the Eng English ish Romeo and Juliet Da Porto says that the story was related to to him by one of his archers as a a- a diversion on a journey along a solitary road oad But it was probably known to many writers in indifferent indifferent different countries before this time and it has been feen thought may have been derived derived derived de de- rived from a conn connected cha chain in of tra tra- It has been traced to a Greek romance romance romance ro ro- mance and by one author historically treated as a real event The story was also carried into France and given a place in Painters Painter's Palace of Pleasures k There are some differences however in the tales produced by these writers For instance the tragic ending which is such an essential point to the success of Shakespeare's Shakespeare not noted d play has been changed by Lope into a merry meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing and a marriage sanctioned by the ladys lady's friends This is the common and expected ending of all stories and plays and how grateful the Engl English sh people ou ought ht to feel that their writer at least did not follow the general rule Indeed the preference has been een generally given to Shakespeare's production production production pro pro- which well deserves it Coleridge Coleridge Coleridge Cole Cole- ridge has said The stage in Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shake Shake- speare's time was a naked room with a blanket for a curtain but he made it ita ita ita a field for monarchs Read Romeo and Juliet all is is youth and spring spring- youth with its follies its virtues its precipitancies spring with its od odours urs its flowers and its It is isone isone isone one and the same feeling that commences commences commences com com- goes through and ends the play Sal T. T Laque |