Comparing King Cophetua In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The image or allusion made of King Cophetua and the beggar maid, in Romeo and Juliet, is meant to show a grate and noble king who in fact falls in love with a woman who is a beggar maid. Cophetua is a nobleman, a king, who loves a woman who people believe that he should not love. Moreover, this superb allusion is meant to serve two purposes in both story’s such as the foreshadow Romeo's suicide, and the forbidden love between him and Juliet!
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