the film romeo and just finished at the roxy cinema in toronto,canada .fifteen-year-old Andrea Mason and her friend are leavig the cinema.'What a beautiful love story,'says Andrea.'And it's so sad at the end!'
The film was made in 1996. But the story of Romeo and juliet was writteen 400 years before,in 1596,by one of the greates writest writerst of all time - william shakerpeare.
shakerpeare was born near the town of stratford in England in 1564.As a young man he went to london to work as an actor.In 1589 he started writing play forthe theatre Where he worked. They became very popular,and soon shakerpeare was the most famous writer in England. Over the next twenty-three years he wrote nearly forty plays,including Hamlet, Macbeth and othello