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.
What year did the Romeo and Juliet play take place? The text does not state the year. The story Shakespeare used to base the play on was an old one, over a hundred years old at the time Shakespeare got hold of it, and based on â¦ an even older story which was a thousand years old.