Romeo and juliet

The story revolved around three families from verona. The ruling house, the house of Capulet from where juliet hails and that of montague, the male protagonist’s family. The story commenced with a street brawl fired by the feud between the montague and capulat families. When the prince of verona announced that any further feud would result in punishsment, count paris of the ruling house expressed his desire to marry juliet, from the house of capulet, who was only thirteen.
Meanwhile, after the brawl, benvolio learned about romeo’s lost love rosaline, one of lord capulet’s nieces. The estranged meeting between romeo and juliet took place at the ball arranged for count paris to meet juliet. Romeo met and fell head-over-heels in love with juliet. Romeo disclosed his identity to her on being ‘encouraged in love’. They sought the support of friar laurence,who longed for a reconciliation between the families and were secretly married. Tybalt, juliet’s cousin challenged romeo to a duel on discovering that he had sneaked into the ball. However, because of juliet, romeo refused to fight him and called on the ire of mercutio, who accepted the duel instead of Romeo.
When mercutio was wounded in the duel, romeo slew tybalt and was exiled for the latter’s death. Juliet’s grief was worsened when lord capulet made plans for her wedding with count paris. She sought a help from friar laurence. The plan they came up with was that julliet would consume a drug that would take her into a coma for nearly three hours. Romeo was to be informed of the plan via a messenger, who didn’t reach him in time. On the eve for her marriage to count paris, juliet took the drug and was declered dead.
Romeo heard about her ‘death’ and bought poison before visiting the family crypt. Fate had other plans as paris encounters romeo and was killed by the latter. Believing that his lady-love was dead, romeo drank the poison. When juliet awoke to discover romeo’s corpse, she stabbed herself. The families met at the tomb and heard the story of the lover from the friar. They reconciled and the violent feud was declared over.