Answer:
1. 5th century B.C.
2. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy.
3. The poem tells of the fall from royal favour and the eventual vindication of the Castilian 11th-century noble and military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99).
4. In Victor Hugo: Success (1830–51).
5. Romeo and Juliet can be plausibly dated to 1595. Shakespeare must have written the play between 1591 and 1596.
