page_title: Romeo and Juliet
section_title: The Balcony scene
hierarchical_section_title: Romeo and Juliet / The Balcony scene
caption_attribution_description: Balkon der Julia (Romeo und Julia) in Verona (Italien)
context_page_description: Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is set in Italy and is about the love between two young people from noble families that are enemies. Romeo and Juliet has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been adapted to opera, ballet, television productions, and movies.
context_section_description: Of all the scenes that have ever been written in plays, one of the most famous is in Romeo and Juliet. 
  After Romeo and Juliet have met at a party and fallen in love, Juliet goes up to bed. But she cannot sleep so she stands at her window and pretends she is talking with Romeo. 
  Romeo is going past and says "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? ...It is my Lady! O, it is my Love!"
  Juliet, not knowing he is there, says "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be who you are?) She wishes he was not called Romeo Montague but had some different name, so he was not an enemy.
  Romeo climbs up onto the balcony. Juliet tells Romeo that her love for him is as deep and endless as the sea. They part from each other with the famous words:
  "Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
  That I shall say Good night till it be morrow." (tomorrow)
  This romantic scene has been acted and copied many times, sometimes seriously and sometimes for fun. One well-known scene that took its idea from this, is from West Side Story, a musical by Leonard Bernstein, which takes place on a fire-escape landing with the lovers, Tony and Maria, singing the lovesong, Tonight.
caption: This old house in Verona is called the House of Juliet. Messages are stuck into the bricks.
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