Romeo and Juliet - Background notes by Mekhi

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Across
  1. 4. A modern version of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was created in 1996. The film starred Leonardo Dicaprio as Romeo Montague and Claire Danes as Juliet
  2. 6. Dessert was an orange
  3. 10. An infectious disease that produced neurological disorders, a foul odor and black and blue marks all over the body
  4. 11. After the 1585 birth of his twins, Hamnet and Judith, he disappeared from all records for 7 years
  5. 12. had to flee Stratford for illegally hunting on another man’s property
  6. 13. Patronized by royalty
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  1. 1. The plot for Romeo and Juliet comes from Arthur Brooke’s The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet
  2. 2. stage was a platform that extended into a pit.
  3. 3. I was 25 when she became queen of england in 1558 and reigned until 1603 when she died.
  4. 5. Shakespeare wrote plays mainly for the Globe Theater
  5. 7. England’s cultural renaissance opened a door to writers like William Shakespeare
  6. 8. The original Globe burned down in 1613 due to a cannon shot used as a prop during a production of Henry VIII.
  7. 9. The leading characters, Romeo and Juliet, are teenagers; the long-standing feud forbids them from being together.