What is the historical back ground of famous love chracters'Romeo Juliet'? Where they real?

Answer 1

Romeo and Juliet were not real. In Early modern English literature and before it was customary to "borrow" your themes, characters, etc. from others writers and poets without giving them credit. Shakespeare also did this with "Romeo and Juliet" There are several stories similar to this which predate his. His play is the most famous of the type of survive. We still do not know who he was for sure. There was so such thing as a copyright then.

Answer 2

Conspiracy theories are all well and good, and few people think Shakespeare wrote his whole canon, but, those with lots of slips of historical accuracy are likely to be less true with those whose 'internal evidence' holds up.

Tower Bridge was opened in 1894. Old London Bridge was the only fixed crossing of the tidal Thames in pre-moden times and the furthest down crossing of the river until the opening of Tower Bridge.

Romeo and Juliet was written in 1595 (the only play of the Shakespeare canon I can remember the date of composition/first performance for, for some reason), and was widely believed to be based on a poem by Arthur Brooke, although the story was circulating in other forms around the time of the play's first composition.

Fixed spellings were rare until the C18th and spellings of names and the like still change today, tho with the advent of authorative dictionaries like the OED and its equivalents in other lands this is less common tho, for instance, the standard spelling for 'connection' was 'connexion' as late as the 1960s. The spellings of many British place names, for instance, was only standardized with the coming of the railways

Answer 3

They weren't real, it was just a story, but this is a story that I'm sure happens all the time. Imagine on a small Cul De Sac, two kids of families who can't stand each other fall in love and are forbidden to see each other but do anyway. This story is believable all the way back to the days well before Shakespeare.

Answer 4

~Lady Lydia Medici and Sir Bertand Cornwell met during a conference called by Queen Elizabeth to quell some of the unrest that had grown from the Protestant movement caused by Elizabeth's father's (Henry VIII) attempt to divorce her mother. Bert and Lydia were struck by the 'thunderbolt' but the conference failed. They tried vainly to continue their affair, to the chagrin of the English throne and the papacy. Doomed to despair, Bertrand impaled himself on a cross on the Tower Bridge on Friday, July 13, 1503. Hearing the news a month later to the day, Lydia followed suit and jumped from the Bridge of Sighs in Venice on August 13. Thus gave rise the superstition surrounding Friday the 13th. More importantly, Elizabeth's catholic cousin, James Stewart chose to immortalize the event in drama and he based his play "Romeo and Juliet" on the Bertrand/Lydia fiasco. James, being born of exalted royal blood could not condescend to put forth pulp fiction for the hoi poloi and so he had to publish his works under a pseudonym and he chose "William Shakespeare" for his purpose. Others used the same name and that is why, through the 16th and 17th century, one finds at least four different spellings of 'Shakespeare', each author having published under his own spelling. All the works have since been combined under a single spelling and attributed to a single source "the Bard of Avon", which is perhaps the best joke of all - the "bard" being a term of derision of the Gaelic Scots who applied it.

Answer 5

Shakespeare got the idea for this play from an Italian poem about two people Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 6

they werent real. They came from rival families and that is why their love was so complicated and forbidden.

Answer 7

No. If they were, then Shakespeare would just be a true crime writer.