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Romeo and Juliet (Dover Thrift Editions) |  | Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 23699
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486275574
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780486275574
ASIN: 0486275574
Publication Date: May 4, 1993
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Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families, and timeless passion contains some of Bard’s most beautiful poetry.
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 Shakespeare's Best April 13, 2009
Nidkah (Mexico)
Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate romance play ever written. Shakespeare is the master playwright of all ages. Whenever you feel your life is a tragedy, sit down and read this masterpiece, you will immediately feel better about your own life.
 Strong feelings both positive and negative. July 2, 2006
James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am very conflicted in my feelings about this play; there are very powerful reasons to rate it highly, and also very powerful reasons to rate it poorly. There are, really, NO reasons for rating it mediocre, and yet that's what I wind up doing, only because that is the balance between the great and the terrible.
On the down side, BECAUSE this story has the reputation it has as THE prototypical love story, I truly despise it because it is responsible for an incredible amount of grief in the world over the last 400 years or so. Who can count how many young lovers have come to grief because they unquestioningly accept the idiotic presumtion that this story is predicated upon, that two people who literally don't know a thing about one another, not even their names, can make eye contact across a room and fall in love? Not simply feel attraction or interest, but truly fall in love? Love so powerful that they will die rather than live without one another? Yet this story has so permeated the culture that it is almost universally accepted that this is what love is like, and even people who have never read this play or seen it performed have been influenced by this idiocy to the point of trying to live their lives as though this were truly what love is like. As the main promulgator of such misinformation about the nature of love, this book is guilty of causing more pain in the world than many war criminals.
And yet...blast it all, it's BEAUTIFULLY written. The language is fluid and musical even by Shakespeare's standards. Even though it is a tragedy, it is told with a trace of wry humor, as Shakespeare manages in only his very best work. I can understand why it has the reputation it has; the plot (once one accepts the ludicrous premise it is built upon) follows plausibly. If one ignores the damage that the play has done to the world's concept of what constitutes love, and rates it merely on its literary merits, it is clearly a 5-star effort, even when compared only to other Shakespearean plays.
Unfortunately, that's what makes it so dangerous.
Shakespeare as it should be... November 21, 2005
C. Berchild (USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is Shakespeare as it should be... no extraneous notes, no unnecessary stage directions, nothing but the text. If you are looking for anything that explains character, language, theme, etc. don't look here, as Shakespeare never wrote any of that. This is purely the text as-is.
As a theatre professor, I would rather have my students work with a text like this rather than one littered with useless commentary and biased notations. If you don't understand a term or reference, use the Oxford English Dictionary rather than the limp and limited notes available in many editions.
The play in my thoughts April 25, 2005
Luis Paniagua
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespear's best known plays. It shows how pride and grudges can cause tragedies so it is better to let a problem go than hold a grudge.
This story starts out with Romeo and his cousins walking around in the market place when all of a sudden Juliets cousins come by. They argue over a bit thumb and start to brawl. One of Romeo's cousins die and Tibalt dies as well.
Then there is a party in which Romeo decides to invade. He meets Juliet and falls in love with her. She ends up falling in love with him too but their love can't happen because of their families feud against one another. They decide to flee because she was going to be wed with someone else.
Juliet comes up with a plan that never reaches Romeo's ear. The plan was that she would take a poison that would put her in a deep sleep where it appears that she is dead. Romeo shows up and sees a stiff body of her loved one and he takes his own life with a poison bottle. Juliet wakes up and sees her lover dead so she takes her life away with a dagger. The priest shows up alon with the enemy families. They see what happened and decided not to have a problem between them anymore.
This is a simple summarry of the great play of Romeo and Juliet. It is a tragedy that something horrible has to happen in order for the families to figure out that their fight was unecessary.
This is a great play that everyone should know and should have the moral of this story in their minds when they have grudges.
 Well worth the money. January 23, 2005
Buu Phieu Nguyen (Toronto, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Romeo and Juliet does not read as well as some other plays such as Hamlet. It must be seen to be fully enjoyed. Nevertheless, I would reccomend this edition of the play. It is dirt cheap, for the amount of content you recieve, it is well worth the money. I reccomended it, however I strongly suggest you watch the play first before reading it. I believe that only after you watch the play will you fully appreciate it.
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