Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes & explanatory illustrations clear background information & rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo & Juliet

Includes:: illustrations preliminary notes reading lists (including websites) & classroom notes. Romeo & Juliet is a set text for KS3 in England & remains one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over.

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Cambridge School Shakespeare editions offer an active approach to the Bard's works treating each play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. Resources available on Cambridge GO as a separate purchase: PDF Textbook
- an electronic version of the student text in PDF format that can be annotated & downloaded. Note: Cambridge School Shakespeare & New Cambridge Shakespeare contain the same version of the play text.
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Love sex & death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family & convention. It encompasses great love high drama low comedy & a tragic ending. Romeo & Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful & intense. The loveliness & the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love. ...

A young man & woman meet by chance & fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies & in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds & gang warfare Romeo & Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion & hatred bawdy comedy & high tragedy. ...

This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written spawning a host of imitators on stage & screen including Leonard Bernsteins smash musical West Side Story "and Franco Zeffirellis " Romeo & Juliet "filmed in 1968. A young man & woman meet by chance & fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies & in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds & gang warfare Romeo & Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion & hatred bawdy comedy & high tragedy. This edition is illustrated by Sir John Gilbert." ...

This is the full & unabridged play as a graphic novel! But soft what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east & Juliet is the sun! This title presents the tragic tale of doomed love set in Verona Italy where the Montagues & the Capulets constantly feud & bring unrest to the city. So how could love possibly survive between this pair of star-crossed lovers Romeo Montague & Juliet Capulet? Only Shakespeare could take such a romantic story & turn it into a soul-searching tragedy. ...

No Fear Shakespeare Illustrated
- Graphic Novels" is a series based on the translated texts of the plays found in " No
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This major new edition of Shakespeares greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliets. The play text is expertly edited & the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging theme meaning & Shakespeares use of his sources to give the reader deep & engaging insights into the play. The richly illustrated introduction looks at the plays exceptionally beautiful & complex language & focuses on the figure of Juliet as being at its centre. Rene Weis discusses the plays critical stage & film history including West Side Story & Baz Luhrmanns seminal film Romeo + Juliet. This is an authoritative edition from a leading scholar giving the reader a penetrating & wide-ranging insight into this ever popular play. ...

A story of ill-fated lovers whose untimely deaths unite two feuding families Romeo & Juliet has become the archetype of young love destined to meet a tragic end. The hatred between the House of the Capulets & the House of the Montagues is well known in Verona. Yet love blossoms between Romeo & Juliet. A brawl between the kinsmen of the Houses leads to Romeos exile & from then on it is a series of misjudgments & chance
- of time place & event that inexorably play out the lovers doom. One of the most popular of Shakespeares plays & one of his most performed Romeo & Juliet is an enduring love story of emblematic proportions. Campfires adaptation seeks to bring this iconic work of Shakespeare to young readers in a language that is simple yet Shakespearean & art that movingly recreates a tragic romance of 16th-century feudal Italy.
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Romeo Montague thinks hes in love until he meets Juliet the daughter of the Capulets. With her he discovers what true love really feels like. But their two families are bitter rivals & no one must know about their secret passion. When Romeo kills Juliets cousin in a duel their hope of happiness seems ended. Can Friar Laurence reconcile the two families or will his plans bring even more tragedy? ...