Romeo and Juliet; Initial

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• Full title · The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• Author · William Shakespeare
• Type of work · Play
• Genre · Tragic drama
• Language · English
• Time and place written · London, mid-1590s
• Date of first publication · 1597 (in the First Quarto, which was likely an unauthorized incomplete edition); 1599 (in the Second Quarto, which was authorized)
• Publisher · Thomas Creede (in the Second Quarto, using the title The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet)
• Climax · The deaths of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb (5.3)
• Protagonists · Romeo; Julie
  
• Antagonists · The feuding Montagues and Capulets; Tybalt; the Prince and citizens of Verona; fate
  
• Settings (time) · Renaissance (fourteenth or fifteenth century)
• Settings (place) · Verona and Mantua (cities in northern Italy)
• Point of view · Insofar as a play has a point of view, that of Romeo and Juliet; occasionally the play uses the point of view of the Montague and Capulet servants to illuminate the actions of their masters.
• Falling action · The end of Act 5, scene 3, when the Prince and the parents discover the bodies of Romeo and Juliet, and agree to put aside their feud in the interest of peace.
• Tense · Present

First few key facts about the story of Romeo and Juliet.