During the late 1500s, Queen Elizabeth ruled over England during its golden age. In this period, poetry, music, and literature flourished from authors, musicians, and poets like William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, in his time, was a distinguished poet, playwright, and actor throughout the Elizabethan Era. The Bard of Avon wrote many plays in his time such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. A prominent example of a popular play he was wrote was Romeo and Juliet, a tragic romance between two…
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