What caused the fight with Montagues and Capulets?

William Shakespeare never mentioned why the two houses were fighting so it's anyone's guess. Chances are it was something going back a long time since it seemed to be old news to the rest of the town.

What would've happened after the marriage was revealed is also anyone's guess. Personally, I think the families would've made up or at least come to a tolerance of each other since the the two fathers immediately reconciled after seeing the devastation their feuding had cause.

It is never stated why the two families are arguing. In all possibility, it is a feud that has lasted generations, so not even the modern day families know why they are fighting, they just know that the other family is their enemy.

There is an author named Donald Miller who supposed that they were fighting about the old 'Catholic vs. Protestant' thing that was so enduring in England at that time. It kind of is a 'Face-saver' that he doesn't really point it out, though, isn't it?

I think Shakespeare intentionally left out the cause of the feud, to make the conflict in the play seem even more empty and absurd.

Comparably to the Hatfields and McCoys, no one actually knows and think it not being revealed to us, further drives the point home of it being a dated, insignificant conflict.

No reason is given for the feud. They have apparently been at odds forever. They would have made Juliet get an annulment and marry Paris. Or they might have realized that Romeo and Juliet were an acceptable match and made peace overtures to each other.






"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Montague is a Mac. Capulet is a PC.

Someone stole someone else's goat and it escalates over generations.

People don't like to be meddled with.