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Romeo and Juliet is a totally original work by William Shakespeare? True False

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False he took ideas from the author Arthur Brooks
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False, the play Romeo and Juliet was not an original work by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare took inspiration from the poem by Arthur Brooke called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet, written in 1562.

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