Romeo and Juliet

The worldsworth classic's shakespeare series presents a newly-edited sequence of william shakespeare's works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship whilem giving the material a careful reappreisal.

Romeo and juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love.Defying the feud which divide 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 Iyricism,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 tı make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.