Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Fact or Fiction


I have always wondered if Romeo and Juliet was a true story or if Shakespeare complete made it up in his imagination. I found the answer at this link. (It is at the bottom of the page.) Romeo and Juliet is a true story. There were such families by the names of Capulet and Montague, and there were two forbidden lovers from these families who died for each other. At the link above there are also a lot of other interesting facts about Shakespeare like facts about his others plays and information about the little bit of information that we do know about his life.

3 comments:

sadie star said...

good thinking! we need to search that and see if its true. Good Blog

hi my name is.... said...

I have also wondered since we have started reading Romeo and Juliet that if this story was actually true or not.
It is really cool that this was a true story. I am glad to know :].

Eazy B said...

"Shakespeare is said to have had a vocabulary of some 29,066 words. An average person’s today might use just 2000 words used in everyday conversation."

WOW.
Good link.