Date and text thumb|left|Title page of the first edition It is unknown when exactly Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's Nurse refers to an earthquake she says occurred 11 years ago.Romeo and Juliet, I.iii.23. This may refer to the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580, which would date that particular line to 1591. Other earthquakes—both in England and in Verona—have been proposed in support of the different dates. But the play's stylistic similarities with A Midsummer Night's Dream and other plays conventionally dated around 1594–95, place its composition sometime between 1591 and 1595. One conjecture is that Shakespeare may have begun a draft in 1591, which he completed in 1595.
Date and text thumb|left|Title page of the first edition It is unknow.n when exactly Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's Nurse refers to an earthquak.e she says occurred 11 years ago.Romeo and Juliet, I.iii23 This may refer to the Dover Straits earthqu.ake of 1580, which would date that particular line to 1591 Other earthquakes—both in England and in Verona—have been proposed in support of the different dates. But the play's stylistic similarities with A Midsummer Night's Dream and other plays conventionally dated around 1594–95, place its composition sometime between 1591 and 1595. One conjecture is that Shakespeare may have begun a draft in 1591, which he completed in 1595.