Romeo and Juliet
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An edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy, including discussion of its plot, characters, themes, language, production, and leader.
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I have used this recording with my students for several years and it does an brilliant job of conveying how Shakespeare meant his play to be “seen.” The actors do a fantastic job of emoting as well as emphasizing what needs to be emphasized. It is simple to follow (sometimes a bit quick, but students catch up on it after a while). It is simple to read with the class (cd points stop with scenes, not in the middle of the action which makes it simpler to pick up the next day). I would recommend this for any English classroom or anyone for that matter!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
this is a really terrible, boreing book that i couldn’t wait to throw out
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What a dull like tale – I wasn’t impressed. Bizarre plot, long tedious read.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Caution Scalawags: May Cause Pulmonary Failure!, July 29, 2004
Reviewer: Professor Emeritus Percy Q. Johnstone (Darkest India) – See all my
reviews
Yes dear reader, it is I, Professor Emeritus Johnstone. As you may have
divined, as Professor Emeritus of American Literature, I am well versed with
dramatic writings from our sister nation, England. Now, many of you are
unfamiliar with the work, as William Shakespeare is relatively unknown in
the bumpkin-ridden land you call “The Colonies”. But, you
lucky few will learn a goldmine of quotes such as “Alack, Alack,
Alack” and additional favorites. But I, Professor Emeritus Johnstone,
diverge. Yes yes. For persons of you who wish to pursue the god-agreed purpose
of the most noble art of teaching American Literature, you must be familiar
with the works of Shakespeare. As you are stupid, and not a professor, like
I, Professor Emeritus Johnstone, you undoubtedly do not know, but no
matter. The tale of “Romeo and Juliet” is simple. it opens in a
court yard in Venice where the political rebels, Pyramus and Thisbe are
plotting to overthrow the evil fascist government (oh how I, Professor
Emeritus Johnstone know that feeling. I confess, dear reader, that once I,
Professor Emeritus Johnstone, lived in America until government stooges
exiled me to darkest India for poliical subterfuge. Suberfuge! Bah!). Alas,
Lord Capulet’s men break into the meeting and arrest poor Pyramus and
Thisbe, casting them into the darkest dungeon. Ah, but chance smiles on our
two heroes, for in the cell next to them are the “Star-burned
lovers” Romeo and Juliet, who were imprisoned for plotting to overthrow
the evil Capulet. Together, they escape the prison, kill all the
fascist-swine guards, and blow up the prison, bringing us, dear reader,
rather neatly to the end of Act I.
Act II opens in Lord Montague’s (Lord Capulet’s chief of security) hall,
where he has just made posters offering 5000 inscription for the heads of the four
rebels. Enter the villain (mustache and all) Tybalt (cousin to Count Paris)
the gift-hunter. Tybalt, in a scene that stirred even I, Professor Emeritus
Johnstone, gives a heartrending “soliliquy” in which he mourns on
he pain of killing persons whose politico agendas you support. Thus ends Act
II. In Act III, we find…ROMEO WORKING FOR LORD CAPULET! He has become a
traitorous lap-dog to the very system he despises (oh reader, how I,
Professor Emeritus Johnstone, know this feeling!). Pyramus and his rebel
army storm the palace, and in the final scene, Pyramus kills his traitorous
lover, Romeo, driving a dagger through his jugular…only to find out that
Romeo was a spy. Pyramus then jumps out the highest tower in penance to end
the play.
Genius. Every potential collegiate scamp should read this edition, for it
has a preface by one of the greatest scholars of our age…none additional than
I, Professor Emeritus Johnstone.
Hark, I hear my Biddy calling me to gruel and morning prayers. As Hamlet
said, “Adieu Honest Readers!”
Bitterly,
–Professor Emeritus Percy Q. Johnstone
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Unadorned and simple – Shakespeare sold out.
*R&J* is simply sensationalist trash. It contains a excellent part of Shakespeares worst verse and insipid characterizations. It’s unchallenging, crude, and simply melodrama for the most part. It’s the Shakespearean equivalent of “Party of Five” and the Flavor Girls.
The only saving grace of this “play” (why not call it a “B-play?”) is the gorgeous soliloquy by Mercutio about Queen Mab.
The rest is absolute garbage.
Read a real play. “Hamlet,” although dreadfully overplayed, is a fine work. So is “Caesar.”
And forget Shakespeare. There are additional fine Elizabethan writers who have been forced to exist in the “Bard’s” shadow. Had Marlowe lived, we wouldn’t have even known about Shakespeare. And Donne finally been recognizable for the genius that he is.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5