'Romeo an Juliet' is Shakespeare's tragic story of young impetuous love thwarted by a bitter Veronese family fued. Romeo, heir of the Montague family, attends a masquerade dance at the home of the Capulets, where he meets Juliet, the Capulets daughter. It is love at first sight. Their love is torn asunder by the fued between their families. It is only after the double suicide of the young lovers their long divided kinsmen are reconciled in sorrow.