Romeo and Juliet

The immortal tale of star-crossed lovers in a newly updated eBook edition featuring hundreds of hypertext links, scene-by-scene summaries, and more.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this exquisitely poetic play has become the quintessential story of young love.

This authoritative eBook edition includes:

-The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference

-Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases

-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language

-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books

-An annotated guide to further reading

-And more