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Romeo and Juliet

(Wordsworth Classics)

By William Shakespeare

(514)

| Paperback | 9781853260148

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Book Description

An international team of scholars offers: - modernised, easily accessible texts - ample but unobtrusive academic guidance - attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history - informative illustations, including reconstructions of early performances

Critics

The Ghost at the Feast

To unravel my first associations with Shakespeare is like trying to clamber back into the core of childhood. My parents worked in the theater—my mother as actress, my father as director and theater owner—and stages figured early on as places of magic ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

10 Reviews

great story

i love to read it

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rehan khan said on Dec 2, 2011 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

When reading it in school I personally did not enjoy it but being forced to read it takes away the joy and passion of discovering it for yourself, but after a few years I decided to read it again and loved it.

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xYoshiiiiox said on Jun 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

Romeo and Juliet is the classic of long term passion in Oscar Wilde's way: lifelong passion is different from caprice in that caprice lasts more. The dialogues are fantastic, and it is a pleasure to read it slowly and aloud. One must to literature lovers.

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ariadna73 said on Jun 6, 2010 | Add your feedback

Quite ol' school -- pick this up on a sleepless night. The perfect complement to the reading experience is to start with Garbage's "#1 Crush" of the movie "Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLrN4FQkuc.

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Search Serg said on Nov 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

A timeless love story, although a bit naive.

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s u v i said on Mar 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

I studied this in English class and I really like the play. It is excellent. After I read it once I read it about 20 more times after that. It's just so romantic and Romeo and Juliet make such a cute couple. Son't know why everyone thinks Juliet should be with Paris. I totally love the cover of this ... (continue)

I studied this in English class and I really like the play. It is excellent. After I read it once I read it about 20 more times after that. It's just so romantic and Romeo and Juliet make such a cute couple. Son't know why everyone thinks Juliet should be with Paris. I totally love the cover of this book as well.

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angelprincess720 said on Dec 25, 2007 | Add your feedback