William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Subtitle: the contemporary film, the classic play
By: the screenplay by Craig Pearce & Baz Luhrmann and the text of Shakespeare's original play together in one volume ; notes to William Shakespeare's play by John Bettenbender
Contributors: Luhrmann, Baz; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Published: 1996-11
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780440227120
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Motion picture)
Other titles: Romeo and Juliet
Description: Award-winning director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) has updated Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and teen suicide in a unique new film, in which the warring Capulets and Montagues are gangsters who carry guns instead of swords. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries) and Claire Danes (My So-Called Life, Little Women) as the doomed lovers, the film is set in a modern city. The actors speak Shakespeare's words--but with their own American accents.


Readers can now experience this new vision of Shakespeare's violent, tragic play alongside the Bard
s original text, in a special single volume that features an introduction by the film's director.
--back cover
Notes: "The contemporary film, cl996 by Twentieth Century Film Corporation; the classic play, cl965 by Dell Publishing Co., Inc."--T.p. verso.