Upon what sources did Shakespeare draw to write Romeo and Juliet?
        
        
     
    
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        Romeo and Juliet follows an ancient tradition of the tragic love story.  Earlier stories in this tradition include that of Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid's Metamorphosis.