Book!Rosaline still loses her parents and fortune, but she and Livia are treated as respectable noblewomen and able to live independently.

In the show, he's orphaned, bullied by Lord Montague who also killed his father, viewed as an irresponsible drunkard and has his heart broken by Canon Foreigner Stella.

Book!Benvolio, while he loses Romeo and Mercutio, still has a loving mother and uncle and is generally well-regarded by Verona.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Benvolio and Rosaline compared to the book.

Benvolio even asks why his uncle has always hated him.

Lord Montague emotionally abuses Benvolio, constantly degrades him, uses him for target practice when he's bored and it turns out murdered his father in the first place.

Rosaline believes this is because Lady Capulet is jealous of their late mother. Lady Capulet raised her two nieces, Rosaline and Livia, but treated them more like servants than family.Not to be confused with the CW's Short-Runner Star-Crossed. The two both set out to find a way to end the violence without having to go through with their undesired union. Rosaline ( Lashana Lynch), the woman who rejected Romeo before he met her cousin Juliet and Benvolio (Wade Briggs) are forcibly betrothed by Prince Escalus (Sterling Sulieman) in an effort to put an end to the rivalry between the Montagues and the Capulets. The series tells the story of what happened after the famous play's ending. It is produced by Shonda Rhimes's company Shonda Land with ABC.

Still Star-Crossed is an ABC series that is based upon Romeo and Juliet and adapted from Melinda Taub's book of the same name.

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