English language
Published Nov. 4, 1994 by Penguin Books.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. …
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality, however, and later editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare's original. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure (especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story) has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical, and opera venues. During the English Restoration, it was revived and heavily revised by William Davenant. David Garrick's 18th-century version also modified several scenes, removing material then considered indecent, and Georg Benda's Romeo und Julie omitted much of the action and used a happy ending. Performances in the 19th century, including Charlotte Cushman's, restored the original text and focused on greater realism. John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. In the 20th and into the 21st century, the play has been adapted in versions as diverse as George Cukor's 1936 film Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version Romeo and Juliet, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.
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Somehow, it turns out that when you're not forced to read a book and answer dozens of inane questions on every page it becomes more enjoyable. Who'd have thought?
Romeo and Juliet is such a huge part of our cultural consciousness at this point that there's really not much point talking about it in too much detail. There are a couple of things that I think are worth noting after this read-through, though.
First, the book is hilarious. Didn't notice it so much back in high school. There are so many jokes scattered about (most of them sexual) that you almost forget the grim dramatic backdrop of this forbidden love. Romeo's emo tendencies carry little weight against Mercutio's banter, but in the end the grim tidings win out.
Second, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet's deaths is sometimes portrayed as weirdly contrived because Romeo literally only needs to wait a …
Somehow, it turns out that when you're not forced to read a book and answer dozens of inane questions on every page it becomes more enjoyable. Who'd have thought?
Romeo and Juliet is such a huge part of our cultural consciousness at this point that there's really not much point talking about it in too much detail. There are a couple of things that I think are worth noting after this read-through, though.
First, the book is hilarious. Didn't notice it so much back in high school. There are so many jokes scattered about (most of them sexual) that you almost forget the grim dramatic backdrop of this forbidden love. Romeo's emo tendencies carry little weight against Mercutio's banter, but in the end the grim tidings win out.
Second, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet's deaths is sometimes portrayed as weirdly contrived because Romeo literally only needs to wait a few seconds before killing himself for the plan to work, but it's interesting to be reminded of how much went wrong before he gave up on life. The Friar's messenger never made it to Romeo, so he had no way to know that Juliet was still alive; Romeo was forced to kill Paris to enter the tomb, the second good man he's had to kill after Tybalt, and he's clearly not feeling great about that; he's literally staring at his wife's dead body, which is bound to put someone in a foul mood; and he knows that he doesn't have much time before others come and investigate the murdering and grave robbing he's doing, so he sort of needs to act fast if he wants his plan to work. All this to say that as much as Romeo's kind of an idiot, if he was going to kill himself by Juliet's side at least it all followed reasonably logically. Dude had a lot going wrong in a very short span of time.
I would pretty much recommend that everyone read this book. I like it, others might not, but it's seriously so important to English literature that it's hard to imagine how different things would be without it. When I read Macbeth I'm reminded of how many little sayings and turns of phrase Shakespeare brought us; when I read Romeo and Juliet I'm reminded of how much literature and language as a whole evolved from his plays.
The first romantic tragedy I read when I was in 7th standard. I have always loved every single verse from this play and I had remembered them by heart as a boy.
Das Stück von Shakespeare, das mir bisher am wenigsten gefallen hat.
