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Compare And Contrast Romeo And Juliet By Arthur Brooke
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Have you ever read the same story written by two different authors? One story was written by Arthur Brooke, “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet “, whilst Shakespeare wrote “Romeo and Juliet”. These two poems are different, and similar in some ways, like comparing and contrasting the two essays.

In one way, they are similar because when Romeo sees Juliet at the Capulet party, he finds her and waits for the party to end to spy on her. He later jumps the wall and listens to her talking at the balcony. Like when Romeo said, “...as glorious to this night o’er my head; as a winged messenger of heaven” This quote shows that he was gone for two weeks and finally came to her house. Also, he said

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