Rosaline

Romeo and Juliet Task: Explore Shakespeare?s treatment of the theme of Love in Act 1 of ?Romeo and Juliet?. How does Shakespeare make the first meeting of the lovers dramatic and convincing for his audience? Romeo and Juliet is the story of a ?pair of star-cross?d lovers?, born into two feuding families. The Montague?s and Capulet?s are two households ?both alike in dignity? who have been at war for as long as each household can remember but neither know why. Although we are told the fate of the two lovers at the beginning, using the prologue, Shakespeare still delays their meeting to show the depth of the feud and how it affects Romeo and Juliet.