In a message dated 2/3/2004 11:27:06 PM Mountain Standard Time, dblocher1@verizon.net writes: I was just told that Romeo or Juliet from Shakphre's "Romeo & Juliet" play was a Plantagenet. Can anyone confirm this? I always thought that these characters were just Myths, but then again Shackspear [spelling] did write a lot of plays on actual people such as "Henry V", "Lion in Winter", "MacBeth"; I guess I shouldn't be too surprised! Like so many of Shakespeare's work, the base is from another piece of work. If you read some ancient Greek plays, there is one that two lovers are in the same predictament. However, instead of poison, the 'fake' is red juice from berries to simulate a lion attack. It shows you just how old that original play is...when lions roamed Greece. (Hint: Alexander the Great went on a lion hunt when he was a boy. OLD play!) Affiliated families: Andrews, Appel, Appley, Asbury, Ayres, Bader, Barker, Barnum, Bates, Bauder, Bealy, Bellinger, Bowling, Braunson, Briggs, Brooks, Buckling, Burton, Carr, Carter, Cary, Clark/Clarke, Cordula, Dyer, Ecker, Fell, Finch, Flanery/Flannery, Fox, Frank, Fuller, Gardner, Garrison, Geary, Goodale, Grim, Hager, Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hayes, Henkle, Hickey, Hinkle, Hodgson, Hurless, Jenkins, Kauffman, Keith, Lane, Lunger, Marcy, Marshall, Morris, Pier, Poage, Poole, Raney, Rich, Saltsman, Sawyer, Schenk, Shepard, Simmons, Skeels, Skiff, Slocum, Spencer, Strong, Taylor, Teter, Thomas, Tinkham, Tripp, Vansant, Wagner, Walrath, Wanner, Warner, Whitlam, Whitney, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever, Wright. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net Regards, Diane Wolford

----- Original Message ----- From: <SnowBeri@aol.com> To: <PLANTAGENET-DESCENDANTS-PROJECT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [PDP] Romeo & Juliet: Are they real? > If you read some ancient Greek plays, there is one that two lovers are in the > same predictament. However, instead of poison, the 'fake' is red juice from > berries to simulate a lion attack. It shows you just how old that original > play is...when lions roamed Greece. (Hint: Alexander the Great went on a lion > hunt when he was a boy. OLD play!) Yeah, and I always thought that the ending to Romeo & Juliet was quite parallel to Cleopatra & Marc Antony!