Greece is strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast.
For the park in Upstate New York, see Verona Beach State Park. Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 American romantic drama film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles. The film is an abridged modernization of Shakespeare's play.
Both title characters committed suicide in William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. The balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet has become synonymous with romance. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, so it cannot end happily. Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, based many of his plays on popular stories of the time. Shakespeare wrote during a time when plays were either comedies or tragedies.