
Romeo and Juliet
Approaching Shakespeare
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Introduction
Most critics would date Romain Juliet to about 1594 to 5, somewhere in between Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard II. In some ways the most formal or the most formally kind of inflected of Shakespeare's plays. The most obvious use of verse, rhyming, the sonnet form with Romain Juliet for instance. All the different kinds of language that the different characters use in Midsummer night's dream.
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