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1. What do you know about Romeo and Juliet story?
Romeo and Juliet is a history from Shakespear, and it's very famouse around the world. The story tell us the love between two lovers, but they are from two different families, and their families are enemys. Finaly, love win all the other things, but they died for a mistake.

2. When was it written?
The tragedy was written in 1597, by Shakespear.

3. What type of text is it: novel, poem or play?
It's a novel, a tragedy, because a lot of people died, and the argument is very sad.

4. What is the origin of the story?
Shakespear based it on traditional love storys, one of it Pyrahmus and Thisbe.

5. Who is the author?
The autor is William Shakespear.

6. Where was the author from?
William Shakespear comes from England, there he was born, grew up and died.

7. Do you know other works by him?
Yes: Macbeth and Hamlet, two other tragedy's.

8. Who was the King/Queen in his country when Romeo and Juliet was written?
Elizabeth was the Queen, and Edward VI the king.

9. Was he/she important? Why?
Yes, she was the queen in a important time, and she begun the war with Spain

10.What social norms existed in that time for young people and marriage?
Normaly their parents look for a husbad or a wife, they don't could decided.