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The balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet as depicted by Ford Madox Brown (1869-70)

^ da Porto, Luigi (1868). "The Original Story of Romeo and Juliet". In Pace-Sanfelice, G. (ed.). The original story of Romeo and Juliet by Luigi da Porto. From which Shakespeare evidently drew the subject of his drama. Being the Italian text of 1530, and an English translation, together with a critical preface, historical and bibliographical notes and illustrations . Translated by Pace-Sanfelice, G. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and co. hdl : 2027/mdp.39015082232961 .

^ Hunter, Lynette; Lichfield, Peter (2009). Negotiating Shakespeare's language in Romeo and Juliet: reading strategies from criticism, editing and the theatre . Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7546-5844-3 .

^ Halio, Jay (1998). Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to the Play . Hoboken, New Jersey: Blackwell Publishing . p. 93. ISBN 1-4051-1396-0 .

^ Bevington, David M. (2006). How to read a Shakespeare play . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press . p. 37 . ISBN 0-313-30089-5 .

^ Hunter & Lichfield, p. 11

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Romeo Montague (Italian: Romeo Montecchi ) is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare 's tragedy , Romeo and Juliet . The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague , he secretly loves and marries Juliet , a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest named Friar Laurence . Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt , in a duel , Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death.

The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus , who appears in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano 's Il Novellino (1476). This story was reworked in 1524 by Luigi da Porto as Giulietta e Romeo (published posthumously in 1531). Da Porto named the character Romeo Montecchi and his storyline is near-identical to Shakespeare's adaptation. [1] Since no 16th-century direct English translation of Giulietta e Romeo is known, Shakespeare's main source is thought to be Arthur Brooke 's English verse translation of a French translation of a 1554 adaptation by Matteo Bandello . [2] Although both Salernitano and da Porto claimed that their stories had historical basis, there is little evidence that this is the case.

Romeo, an only child like Juliet, is one of the most important characters of the play, and has a consistent presence throughout it. His role as an idealistic lover has led the word "Romeo" to become a synonym for a passionate male lover in various languages. Although often treated as such, it is not clear that "Montague" is a surname in the modern sense.

The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus ' Ephesiaca , whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes. The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3] Although it is unlikely that Shakespeare directly borrowed from Ovid while writing Romeo and Juliet , the story was likely an influence on the Italian writers whom the playwright was greatly indebted to. [4] The two sources which Shakespeare most likely consulted are Brooke's translation of da Porto and William Painter 's The goodly historye of the true, and constant Love between Romeo and Juliet . [5]

Romeo and Juliet has been adapted into film several times, and the part of Romeo has been played by several actors, including

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Romeo Montague is one of the main characters in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet . Read our Romeo character analysis below:
After the brawl between servants of the two feuding families in the market square in Verona we are introduced to Romeo. He’s a teenager with raging hormones, wandering around in a daze, completely lovesick. He has seen a girl, Rosaline , and fallen in love with her. She’s not aware of that, she’s not even aware of Romeo’s existence. And now, he can’t get her out of his mind.
His friends, a gang of teenage boys who hang out in the square together, make fun of him for it. It’s a great, natural, life-like beginning to a play and a fitting first impression of this innocent boy who is going to have to cope with the realities that a hostile universe is going to confront him with.
But in this play it is a particularly apt beginning: this moping for a pretty, unattainable girl is the emotional rock bottom from which Romeo Montague is going to rise, in a very difficult and uncertain climb, to the status of tragic hero .
When Romeo meets Juliet there is a progressive deepening of his character, although his immaturity is evident throughout. Unlike Juliet, who shows a remarkable level of maturity right from the start, he only really gets there in the last hours of his life.
This first sign that he will develop into something more than a teenage hangout is just before entering the Capulet mansion to gatecrash their party, when he seems aware of the heavy weight of Fate hanging over him, and he broods on the future: ‘My mind misgives/Some consequence yet hanging in the stars.’ The Prologue has told us that the lovers are star-crossed , and that is something that’s reflected in the language throughout the text of the play .
Romeo Montague is hasty and impetuous, with quickly changing moods. He serially falls in love at first sight; marries Juliet the day after meeting her and takes revenge for Mercutio ’s death without stopping to consider the consequences. He is banished from Verona and his mother, Lady Montague, dies of grief.
When confronted with the consequences of his actions he’s unable to cope with the trouble he’s landed himself in. After killing Tybalt he flees to Friar Lawrence ’s cell and descends into a childlike emotional state – becoming distraught, crying, and losing control of himself. He behaves like a toddler and his language is pure hysteria.
Then again, in exile in Mantua , Romeo’s impulsivity is once again evident when, on hearing of Juliet’s death, he cries, ‘then I defy you, stars!’ and springs into action. When he’s in the tomb with Juliet he instantly resolves to kill himself there and then, in the tomb with her. However, although too late, at that point, in his soliloquy beside her body (‘ How oft when men are at the point of death /Have they been merry.’) we see a man who has finally arrived at an understanding of himself and a maturity which, apart from a few flashes in his dialogue with Juliet, he has lacked.
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