from PilgrimJess

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume” This is probably Shakespeare's best-known plays but like probably the majority I hadn't previously read it. I actually find this a hard book to review simply because I knew what ...

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 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 ...

from eddy_liu2

11/04/11 Romeo & Juliet is a dramatic play and a beautiful story written by William Shakespeare. It is a tragic love story between two households that held a grudge against each other and is set in Verona, Italy, Elizabethan times. When Romeo saw Juliet, he fell in love with her instantly. Even t...