ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Romeo is a Capulet, Juliet comes from the Montague family.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Romeo is the only son of Lord and Lady Montague. He falls in love with Juliet. Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. She falls in love with Romeo.

Detailed explanation-2: -Capulet: The head of the house of Capulet, he is Juliet’s father and enemy of Montague. Lady Capulet: Juliet’s mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romeo is the teenage son of the Montague family, who are busy feuding with the Capulets.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is Romeo and Juliet based on? Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot of Romeo and Juliet was The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a long narrative poem written in 1562 by the English poet Arthur Brooke, who had based his poem on a French translation of a tale by the Italian writer Matteo Bandello.

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