Romeo and Juliet Discuss to what extent act one scene five of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, is crucial to the play.

William Shakespeare was probably the most famous playwright in England at the time of Elizabeth the 1st's reign. Even now in the 21st century he is still recognised as an extremely talented playwright the world over. No one is entirely sure in which order he wrote his plays, but it is believed that his first play was a comedy called 'Comedy of Errors' written in approximately 1592. The genres of his plays vary, supposedly showing his …

…sonnet he tells Juliet before they kiss has a very precise rhythm which makes it sound like a poem which he made just for her. I think that if you went to the theatre to see this play you could pick up on this a an important scene. It is crucial to the scene as it is the first meeting of the lovers and triggers the series of events throughout the rest of the play.