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Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies. The two young title characters fall madly in love, but are the children of feuding houses whose hatred for each other works to a devastating end. The play was immensely popular in Shakespeare's lifetime and is the most enduring of his plays along with Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet is considered one of the archetypal love stories.
Anonymous user: Shakespeare's treatments of passionate, irrational and self-destructive love between teenagers (R&J) and mature people (A&C) make for a truly fascinating comparison. The vastly greater political and metaphysical implications, as well as the extreme concentration of the language, in the later play show how far Shakespeare developed for just over a decade.… (more)
I've read this book a while back and also watched the film. The film was much easier to understand because of the visuals. I did not expect a tomb scene and enjoyed the little surprise. ( )
Another excellent Arden examination and illustration of a Shakespeare play, this time possibly the most popular of his plays. As always with the Arden editions, there is a rich exploration of the background of the play, its setting, and its story, as well as a beautifully annotated script. ( )
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Quotations
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo:
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet:
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo:
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet:
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo:
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Juliet:
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light.
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
But that thou overheardest, ere I was ware,
My true love-passion. Therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Friar Laurence:
In one respect I'll thy assistant be.
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn to your households' rancour to pure love
Juliet:
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.
Romeo:
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -
Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think! -
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.
Juliet: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Last words
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Please distinguish between this work, which is Shakespeare's original play, from any of its many adaptations (audio, video, reworking, etc.).
3458348417 2005 softcover German insel taschenbuch 3141 transl. Thomas Brasch 3458357351 2011 softcover German insel taschenbuch 4035 transl. Thomas Brasch
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies. The two young title characters fall madly in love, but are the children of feuding houses whose hatred for each other works to a devastating end. The play was immensely popular in Shakespeare's lifetime and is the most enduring of his plays along with Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet is considered one of the archetypal love stories.
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The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous and deadly mission to preserve their love at any cost.
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"Love moderately," said the Friar to the kids. Wish they had listened.
(Carnophile)
Is it star-crossed love? Should the Friar have hosed them? A little of both. (hillaryrose7)
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