Romeo and Juliet

American  

noun

1. a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.

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Romeo and Juliet Cultural  

1. A tragedy by William Shakespeare about two “star-crossed lovers” (see also star-crossed lovers) whose passionate love for each other ends in death because of the senseless feud between their families. The line “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” is well known.

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Figuratively, a “Romeo” is an amorous young man.

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Other close-ups are less effective—for example, those fixed on the hands and arms of Romeo and Juliet for their “balcony” interlude, where their bare limbs interact in less-than-memorable choreographic configurations.

From The Wall Street Journal

His own narrative, however, fails to make Romeo and Juliet live anew as fresh characters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dance Project, is billed as a “contemporary interpretation” of Sergei Prokofiev’s 1935 “Romeo and Juliet,” Op.

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The ceremony featured a nod to Verona's reputation as the City of Love, thanks to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet being set in the city, and culminated with the simultaneous lighting of two Paralympic cauldrons in Milan and Cortina.

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The “Romeo and Juliet” director’s research team stumbled upon this unseen footage in an underground salt mine in Kansas while making the 2022 biopic starring Austin Butler.

From Los Angeles Times