For our introductory sessions on the play, I will speaking about the life of Shakespeare, the Elizabethan Age, and the Elizabethan theatre, specifically the Globe. Today, we began by discussing biographical information known about William Shakespeare, his birthplace, education , his family, and his plays. I noted the number of plays and sonnets authored by the Bard, and mentioned the more unorthodox opinion suggesting that William Shakespeare of Stratford could not have been the actual author of so many great works given his education and social class. We noted the year Romeo and Juliet was written in the context of early Shakespeare works that for the most part were comedies. I explained that the genre of dramatic "comedy' did not involve necessarily humor but focused on harmonious or happy endings in contrast to tragedies.