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The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall in love they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.
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)
So I listened to a BBC radio production in May this year which had a modern setting although used the original wording of the play and this version I gave 3.5 *. Since then I have watched the 1968 film version which I really enjoyed and then I have just finished reading the actual play and I would now rate it a solid 4*. I think watching the film gave me a better understanding of what was happening in the play even though the film does cut certain bits. And I read it for a third time with explanatory notes and now 5* ( )
I was surprised at how 'f-ck the patriarchy' this play really is. Also surprisingly Romeo comes across as the more emotionally unstable one while Juliet is more firm in what she wants. ( )
William Shakespeare was of course a master story teller and I believe this is one of his greatest. I have read Romeo and Juliet at least twice, including for academic purposes. ( )
An accessible version of Romeo and Juliet with gorgeous artwork by Jane Ray. This version includes lines of the play, definitions of various words and explanatory intros for each scene. A good supplementary version to introduce the play or to add to your understanding of the original. ( )
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
The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall in love they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.
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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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