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Romeo and Juliet - Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series
William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts

New Edition

Paperback (30 Nov 2000)


Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.


The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.


Romeo and Juliet is the worlds most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths.


This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.


Product details

Format Paperback | 160 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 8mm | 106g
Publication date 05 Nov 2000
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication City/Country Herts, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition New edition
Edition Statement New edition
ISBN10 1840224339
ISBN13 9781840224337
Bestsellers rank 5,521