1. Shakespeare was truthful and accurate in the play Romeo and Juliet. During the time of the play, there was a bubonic plague. This plague was killing millions of people, destroying families, and causing there to be many fights amongst families of wealth. During the final Scene of the play Friar Lawrence caught the plague and he ended up not being able to transfer Romeo a message about the faked death of Juliet. As Friar John states in the play, “I could not send it—here it is again—,” Friar John also states, “So fearful were they of infection.” These quotes from Friar John show that Shakespeare's incorporation of the events going on at that time such as the bubonic plague were clearly accurate and related closely to what was going on outside