Romeo and Juliet
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| Name: | Romeo and Juliet |
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| Creator: | William Shakespeare |
| Date(s): | 1590s - present |
| Medium: | theatre, films, musicals, opera, etc |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
| External Links: | Wikipedia |
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical and opera. It's also inspired numerous other films, books, and television shows.
Popular Adaptions
- West Side Story (1961), a Broadway musical adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet story, set in 1950s New York
- Romeo + Juliet (1996), a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles
- Roméo et Juliette aka Rómeó és Júlia (2001), a French stage musical with productions in many other languages
- Romeo x Juliet (2007), an anime loosely based on the play
- Warm Bodies (2010, 2013), a "zombie romance" novel and film that makes numerous allusions to Romeo and Juliet
Fandom
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Ships for the fandom include Romeo/Juliet, Mercutio/Tybalt, Benvolio/Mercutio, Mercutio/Romeo, and Benvolio/Tybalt.
Many fanworks of other fandoms use a fusion type of alternate universe where the main characters in a pairing represent Romeo and Juliet.
Example Fanworks
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Fanfiction
- Servants with Torches by Jane St Clair. An influential early prose work dating from 2000, featuring one of the common slash pairings, Romeo/Mercutio (originally published at Jane's Vengeful Webpage)
- Waste Our Lights In Vain by Nifra Idril. A widely recommended work in a lyrical prose style, one of the earliest fruits of the Yuletide exchange; Romeo/Mercutio (2004)
- Kissing Cousins by fic_madness, Juliet is curious about desire and love and marriage. (Tybalt/Juliet, cousin incest) (2010)
- First and Second Endings by LeBibish. A work focusing on causation, three important character relationships, and what could have made things end differently (2017)