Shakespeare for Young People: Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)

from ctpress

For never was a story of more woe
 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Reading a Shakespeare-play and seeing one is two entirely different things. Having been to the Globe in London and experienced the magic of an evening with Shakespeare it seems a dry thing to "just" read the play. Still, readin...

from MartinBodek

What a sorrowful tale this was, all toldethwhich tooketh me so long to finally beholdeth.Enjoying much am I, traveling through the Bard's w'rksthe linquistics, the grammar, the sentence-y quirks.Fresh eyes, with which, I cometh as observerand eateth up the words, with generous fervorWhat ho! what...

from wendywen

this is a love story, and it is a tragedy.Remeo and Juliet's families are enemy. but in this story is told us if you are falling in love, everything will be possible, and you will be brave.

from csweder

Some people think Shakespeare is too old, outdated and overrated. However, when I can read something for the 14th time, and STILL find new things in it? Obviously that means the author did something right.The themes that appear in this play: love, suicide, hate, and revenge being some of them are...

from LisaMaria_C

Just cultural literacy alone demands you read this play; which I actually think is among Shakespeare's most readable and lyrical, with indelible, lovely lines. It ranks among my favorite of his because of the way he both expresses the beauty of young love as well as the potential destructiveness ...