Romeo and Juliet, probably are the most famous lovers ever. This couple has become a synonym for love itself. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The love story is of two teenagers from two feuding families who fall in love at first sight, is very tragic. To get her lover permanently as her own, Juliet makes a plan with Friar Laurence. He gives her a drug that will put her into a death-like coma for “two and forty hours.” The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan, so that he can rejoin her when she awakens. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt. The messenger, however, does not reach Romeo and, instead, Romeo learns of Juliet’s apparent death from his servant Balthasar. Believing Juliet to be dead, heart-broken Romeo drinks the poison. Juliet then awakens and, finding Romeo dead, stabs herself with his dagger. This ‘untimely death’ for their love makes these lovers immortal. The play ends with the elegy for the lovers: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
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