Romeo and Juliet is likely the best-known love story in the world
William Shakespeare is one of the world's best-known writers . Shakespeare started out as an actor and later became a co-owner of the Globe Theater. In his time, his plays made him famous, and he ended his life in his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote comedies, dramas, and tragedies like "The Comedy of Errors," "The Tamed Scorpion," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Much Ado About Nothing," "As You Like It," "Hamlet," "King Lear," and "The Storm." His most famous poems are the 154 "Sonnets" he wrote in 1609. The 1594 play "Romeo and Juliet" is probably the best-known love story in the world. It is a five-act tragedy based on a true story from the 1400s . The Capulet and Montague families were two of the most influential in Verona. Misunderstandings between the two families were so big and lasted so long that a servant from the Capulet house couldn't meet a servant from th...