William Shakespeare, world-renowned playwright, poet and actor, has been known for centuries around the world for his wide variety of brilliant, poetic plays and creative works written in the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare's plays have a reputation as some of the greatest in the English language and Western literature, traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy, and comprising diverse settings, plots, characters, and imaginative conflicts. They have been translated into every major living language and are continually performed around the world. Many of Shakespeare's plays provide insight into human nature, astonishingly capable of characterizing every emotion, strength and weakness possessed by human beings in the Elizabethan era and even today. Shakespeare's most famous and critically acclaimed play is undoubtedly Romeo and Juliet, a romantic tragedy concerning the fate of two young "star-crossed lovers" (Prologue, l. 6). The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that arises at first sight between Romeo and Juliet and the death of both characters because of their undying love for each other. Although there may be various reasons for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, it is evident that both households and, significantly, old Capulet play the most important roles in the tragedy due to their ancient family feud and of Capulet's overwhelming authority over his daughter, Juliet. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young lovers fall in love and die because of that love. The story is quite extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are very important here. It's not simply that Romeo and Juliet's families disapprove of the lovers' mutual affection; Rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides of a blood feud and are trying to kill each other in the streets of Verona. Every time a member of one of the two families dies in a fight, their relatives cry out for the blood of their killer...