A significant number of asexuals also identify as aromantic, which means that they do not experience romantic attraction. Separating romantic and sexual attraction is not strictly limited to asexual people, however. For instance, it is possible for someone to be an aromantic heterosexual, or any other combination.
Shakespeare got the story of Romeo and Juliet from a poem by Arthur Brooke called Romeus and Juliet. In Brooke's poem, the story takes place in Verona, Italy.
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.