Romeo and Juliet
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781853260148
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Shakespeare plays, texts; Plays; Drama; Plays / Drama; Classics; Shakespeare; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending.

Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflications of blighted love. The beautiful personification of some of the main characters has caused Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and the Nurse to become part of the world's literary mythology.

The text of this edition is taken from the Cambridge University Press New Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.
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