However, no one other than the priest who married them, Friar Laurence, knows of the wedding. After an opening that establishes the enmity between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet fall for each other fast and hard, and with lightening speed have wed and consummated the marriage. In short, they would be a marriageable couple if their families didn’t hate each other. Otherwise, the couple meets all requirements for wooing to commence: they each have feelings for the other, and they are of similar class status. The problem is that he meets Juliet by crashing her father’s party while wearing a disguise (a disguise that ultimately doesn’t fool the right people,) and the reason Romeo needs a disguise is because Romeo’s father and Juliet’s father are archenemies. unrequited love, love triangles, or class differences. The central challenge of this couple’s love affair isn’t the usual fare of Shakespeare’s works – e.g. This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous works, if not the most famous love story in the history of love stories. Get Speechify to make any book an audiobook
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