Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)

Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)
by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)
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Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1994-01-01
ISBN: 0553472356
Publisher: Random House Audio

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Book Review: My "Romeo and Juliet" personal opinion
Summary: 3 Stars

We like and sometimes didn't like this book. "Romeo and Juliet" is based in an "impossible " love. We recommend you not reading this book if you don't like romantic stories.
Also this book didn't like us because it was boring and very difficult to read. I understand that was Shakespeare language but for these new generations is very difficult. In the other way, we like it because the characters did everything for completing their dreams. We could see that Romeo did every thing for being with Juliet.
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Summary of Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)

"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings around the world in mediums that include literature, dance, stage, and screen.

"It is Shakespear all over, and Shakespear when he was young," declares William Hazlitt (1778-1830), acclaimed British essayist and critic, in his exuberant Introduction to this Modern Library edition.

"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur?d piteous overthrows, Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
--Prologue


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