num_pages: 107
description: The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret &amp; illuminate the plays for modern readers. This features a new, modern-spelling text, collated &amp; edited from all existing printings; on-page commentary &amp; notes explaining meaning, staging, allusions &amp; much else; detailed introduction considering composition, sources, performances &amp; changing critical attitudes to the play; illustrations with production photographs &amp; related art; a full index to introduction &amp; commentary &amp; durable sewn binding for lasting use.  Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare, this is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.-Times Literary Supplement
language: English
title: Romeo and Juliet
titlecomplete: Romeo and Juliet
characters: Abram, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet, Mercutio, Friar Lawrence, Juliet, Friar John, Benvolio, Montague., Escalus, Capulet, Romeo, Sampson, Paris, Balthasar
genres: Read For School, Literature, Theatre, Drama, High School, Fiction, School, Classics, Plays, Poetry
ratings_count: 2519863
places: Italy, Verona
publisher: Signet Classics