Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare’s work about two desperately in love teenagers from feuding families is considered to be the most famous love story ever written. The play Romeo and Juliet was performed for the first time around 1596, then it has been adapted as an opera, a ballet, the musical West Side Story, and a dozen films.

Entire play in one page

Act 1, Prologue: PROLOGUE
Act 1, Scene 1: Verona. A public place.
Act 1, Scene 2: A street.
Act 1, Scene 3: A room in Capulet's house.
Act 1, Scene 4: A street.
Act 1, Scene 5: A hall in Capulet's house.

Act 2, Prologue: PROLOGUE
Act 2, Scene 1: A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.
Act 2, Scene 2: Capulet's orchard.
Act 2, Scene 3: Friar Laurence's cell.
Act 2, Scene 4: A street.
Act 2, Scene 5: Capulet's orchard.
Act 2, Scene 6: Friar Laurence's cell.

Act 3, Scene 1: A public place.
Act 3, Scene 2: Capulet's orchard.
Act 3, Scene 3: Friar Laurence's cell.
Act 3, Scene 4: A room in Capulet's house.
Act 3, Scene 5: Capulet's orchard.

Act 4, Scene 1: Friar Laurence's cell.
Act 4, Scene 2: Hall in Capulet's house.
Act 4, Scene 3: Juliet's chamber.
Act 4, Scene 4: Hall in Capulet's house.
Act 4, Scene 5: Juliet's chamber.

Act 5, Scene 1: Mantua. A street.
Act 5, Scene 2: Friar Laurence's cell.
Act 5, Scene 3: A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.

The plot and number of scenes in the play "Romeo and Juliet"

It is not precisely known when “Romeo and Juliet” was written (around 1594–96). But first it appeared in 1597 in an unauthorized quarto. An authorized quarto that was longer and more reliable was published in 1599. A third quarto, based on the second, was used by the editors of the First Folio of 1623.

“Romeo and Juliet” is officially classified as a tragedy, but some critics claim that the play deviates from the tragic genre. It basically consists of prologues, 5 acts and many scenes. Each act generally includes 5-6 scenes.

“Romeo and Juliet” is a play about two teenaged lovers, Romeo and Juliet, that fall in love the first time they see each other. But their families’ feud is too powerful for the lovers to overcome. So, it requires the young people remain enemies. Ultimately, the characters' love does resolve the Montague-Capulet’s feud, but at the price of their lives.

The romantic characters from Verona have been continuously depicted in literature, theatre, dance and music. The premise of Romeo and Juliet is so appealing that the young hero and heroine have become, in the modern popular imagination, the representative type of star-crossed lovers.