Two families from Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, nurse and undying hate for each other. Juliet is a Capulet and
Romeo a Montague; they meet and fall in love not knowing that the other is their family’s mortal enemy. Romeo begs a friar to marry them in secret and the friar ends up agreeing as he believes this marriage may be what the families need to stop killing each other. Juliet had however been promised to Paris, a very eligible young man, and now that she was married it was only a matter of time until they could tell the truth and be freed of the engagement. Before that could happen Romeo’s best friend Mercutio is killed by Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo in turn avenges his best friend’s death by killing Tybalt and is forced to flee from Verona. Juliet is now to marry Paris and in desperation seeks the friar’s help. The friar gives her a potion to drink the night before the wedding that will make her seem dead and sends a message to Romeo letting him know what is happening. The news of Juliet’s death arrives before the friar’s message and Romeo returns to Verona, buys a very potent poison from an apothecary and drinks it as he lays next to Juliet, at that moment, Juliet wakes up and seeing her lover dying she also kills herself.