Juliet's Soliloquy Act 4 Scene 3.

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Juliet's Soliloquy

Act 4 Scene 3

Romeo and Juliet is a very intense and dramatic play which requires a lot of thought. The speech used is full of double meanings and there are many symbolic features in the play.

The author of the play, William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford upon Avon. He was initially a schoolteacher and then a playwright. Shakespeare started writing books in 1592, he also wrote for James the 1st. He married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway. They had two daughters and one son who unfortunately died at an early age and was buried in Stratford upon Avon. William Shakespeare died at the age of 52 on the 23rd of April 1616. He too was buried in Stratford upon Avon.

The play Romeo and Juliet shows what life was like at that time that Shakespeare was writing. It shows the culture of the time and what the people believed in. Girls were considered to be the property of their fathers, for example. The graphic details and his vivid imagination really bring the play to life.

Juliet's father has arranged for her to marry the count,