Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts. Research Professor of English. University of Sussex
The Wordsworth Classics` Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare`s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Romeo and Juliet is the world`s most famous drama of tragic young lo\e. Defying the feud which dix`ides their families. Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; hut a combination of old animosities and new coincidences o brings them to suicidal deaths.
This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden t`iolence. 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.