Question: is romeo and juliet a real story?
Answer: Shakespeare is thought to have taken the plot of Romeo and Juliet mainly from a poem by Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, first published in 1562. ... In 1594 Girolamo del Corte related the story of Romeo and Juliet in his Storia di Verona, claiming it as a true event which took place in 1303.