Romeo and Juliet (Hebald) Romeo and Juliet (Hebald) Romeo and Juliet is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting Romeo and Juliet by American artist Milton Hebald, located in front of Delacorte Theater in Manhattan's Central Park, in the United States. It is one of two companion works at the theater sculpted by Hebald, the other being "The Tempest" (1966). Unveiled in 1977 and cast in 1978, "Romeo and Juliet" was donated by philanthropist George T. Delacorte, Jr. The sculpture is tall; the two figures, shown embracing, are set on a granite pedestal. A cast from the same mold appears in the rose garden at the
Romeo and Juliet replaced by someone who will reciprocate. Shakespeare's procreation sonnets describe another young man who, like Romeo, is having trouble creating offspring and who may be seen as being a homosexual. Goldberg believes that Shakespeare may have used Rosaline as a way to express homosexual problems of procreation in an acceptable way. In this view, when Juliet says "...that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet", she may be raising the question of whether there is any difference between the beauty of a man and the beauty of a woman. The balcony scene was introduced