Romeo and Juliet

About this book

Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, hig drama, low comedy and a tragic ending.Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love. The beautiful personification of some of the main characters has caused Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and the Nurse to became part of the world's literary mythology.The text of this edition is taken from the Cambridge University Press "New Shakespeare", edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.Cover illustration: "Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 4" by William Hatherell.City of Bristol Museum and Art GalleryCourtesy of Bridgeman Art Library, London.