Was Shakespeare the first person to use the forbidden lovers

>>9503416
romeo and juliette was literally stolen from pre-existing Italian plays you dense luddite

Forbidden love is as old as writting itself.

>>9503424
Hey man, you seem stressed, so I just want to tell you that I love you.

>No way he was the first person to think of something like Romeo and Juliet.
You are one smart fella
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_thisbe

>>9503416
Practically none of his stories are original.
That's why you don't read him for the plot. You read Dante for the plot.

>what are
>Pygmalion and Galatea
>Orpheus and Eurydice
>Oedipus and his mom

It's like you never read Greek myths in highschool English

>>9503477
>Oedipus as an example of forbidden love in the style of Romeo and Juliet
Anon you didn't read Sophocles.

>>9503477
>Oedipus
nothing was keeping that nigga from fucking his mom. He's the one who made the decision to stab his goddamn eyes out. He didn't have to do that.

>>9503477
>English
>reading GREEK myths

>>9503416

Romeo and Juliet is basically an adaptation of the ancient Greek myth Pyramus and Thisbe. Has the same story of the parents forbidding them to wed, ends with a mistaken suicide and then the other commits suicide too.

Even in English literature what about Lancelot/Guinevere from the grail myths? they go back hundreds of years before Shakespeare