Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition
    Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition
    Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition
    Ebook172 pages1 hour

    Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition

    By William Shakespeare

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.

    We have Added
    -Annotation
    -footnotes
    and more

    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 play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherholabooks
    Release dateNov 27, 2019
    ISBN9788835338017
    Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

    Read more from William Shakespeare

    Related to Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition

    Related ebooks

    Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Shakespeare Through The Ages

      Apr 15, 2021

      In 1623, the playwright and poet Ben Jonson wrote that his friend Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time”. But Jonson could scarcely have imagined the impact and influence Shakespeare would have on four centuries of thinkers, writers, compo

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Beowulf Is Back!

      Mar 12, 2017

      Beowulf Is Back!
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      We Laughed–until We Cried

      Feb 5, 2020

      We Laughed–until We Cried
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Love In A Lost World

      Jun 24, 2018

      Love In A Lost World
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      An ‘Inheritance’ Deferred

      Oct 25, 2019

      An ‘Inheritance’ Deferred
      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Kingdom Of Souls

      Oct 9, 2019

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 442 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rena Barron Publisher HarperVoyager There’s something comforting about epic fantasy. You know the broad strokes you’re likely to get: protagonist with a destiny, dark lord, invented land w

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Shakespeare And Women

      Apr 15, 2021

      Shakespeare And Women
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Celebration and Enlightenment

      Dec 1, 2019

      Celebration and Enlightenment
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Norwegian Wood

      Jul 25, 2019

      HENRIK IBSEN: THE MAN AND THE MASK By Ivo de Figueiredo, translated by Robert Ferguson. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2019. 704 pp., $40 cloth. HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND HENRIK IBSEN? Theatrically, he was the Master Builder himself, setting the

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Helen McCrory

      Dec 31, 2021

      Helen McCrory
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Book Review

      Sep 17, 2023

      Book Review
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      From Parchment To Performance

      Apr 15, 2021

      In Shakespeare’s time, playwriting was a matter of both perspiration and inspiration. First he had to think up a story, which he would shape into a plot. Usually this meant he had to do a lot of fresh reading, because most of Shakespeare’s plays are

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Shakespeare’s LONDON

      Oct 31, 2024

      Shakespeare’s LONDON
      14 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      ENGLISH HOMES OLD & NEW

      Apr 6, 2022

      ENGLISH HOMES OLD & NEW
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Play’s The Thing

      Apr 15, 2021

      Entertainment in late medieval and Tudor London came in a variety of forms, including cockfighting, bearbaiting and even public executions. Plays at this time often had a religious theme or a moral at the end – such as the battle between good and evi

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Brush Up Your Shakespeare

      Apr 14, 2021

      Brush Up Your Shakespeare
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      All The World’s A Stage

      Apr 6, 2023

      All The World’s A Stage
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

      Jan 5, 2023

      Maybe it’s because although Shakespeare as a writer is of course inimitable, the hundreds (if not thousands) of tribute acts in novel, movie, stage, short story and any number of other formats have been enriching the literary life of the English-spea

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Centre Stage

      Mar 24, 2022

      Centre Stage
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Life And Times: William Shakespeare

      Jun 9, 2021

      Considered the first English writer to become wealthy from his published output, Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the son of a trader. Attendance at the local grammar gave him an ample grounding in

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Speaking Of Shakespeare

      May 1, 2023

      Speaking Of Shakespeare
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Romeo and Juliet Annotated Best Edition - William Shakespeare

      Contents

      About Author

      William Shakespeare was an English artist, dramatist, and on-screen character, generally viewed as the best author in the English language and the world's most noteworthy playwright. William was at the most called England's national writer. His surviving works, including coordinated efforts, comprise of somewhere in the range of 39 plays, 154 pieces, two long story ballads, and a couple of different refrains, a portion of the dubious origin. His plays have been converted into each significant living language and are performed more frequently than those of some other dramatists.

      William was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At 18 years old, he wedded Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three youngsters: Susanna and others. Shakespeare Hamnet and Judith. At some point somewhere in the range of 1585 and 1592, he started an effective vocation in London as a part-proprietor, entertainer, and author, of a playing organization, called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 around 1613, he seems to have resigned to Stratford, where he passed on three years after the fact. Scarcely any records of Shakespeare's private life endure; this has animated significant theory about such issues as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his strict convictions, and whether the works credited to him were composed by others.

      Shakespeare created the greater part of his known works somewhere in the range of 1589 and 1613. His initial plays were Twins and chronicles and are viewed as probably the best work delivered in these sorts. Until around 1608, he composed for the most part disasters, among them Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet, and all viewed as among the best works in the English language. In the last period of his life, he composed tragicomedies otherwise called sentiments and worked together with different dramatists.

      A large number of Shakespeare's plays were distributed in releases of fluctuating quality and exactness in his lifetime. Nonetheless, in 1623, two individual on-screen characters and companions of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, distributed a progressively complete book known as the First Folio, an after-death gathered release of Shakespeare's emotional works that incorporated everything except two of his plays. The volume was introduced with a ballad by Ben Jonson, where Jonson judiciously hails Shakespeare in a now-axiom as not of an age, yet forever.

      All through the twentieth and 21st hundreds of years, Shakespeare's works have been constantly adjusted and rediscovered by new developments in grant and execution. His plays stay prominent and are contemplated, performed, and reinterpreted through different social and political settings around the globe.

      INTRODUCTION

      Romeo and Juliet is a catastrophe composed by William Shakespeare from the get-go in his profession around two youthful star-crossed sweethearts whose passings eventually accommodate their quarreling families. It was among Shakespeare's most prevalent plays during his lifetime and alongside Hamlet, is one of his most habitually performed plays. Today, the title characters are viewed as original youthful darlings.

      Romeo and Juliet have a place with a convention of appalling sentiments extending back to the relic. The plot depends on an Italian story converted into the section as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in writing in the Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare builds up various supporting characters, especially Mercutio and Paris. Accepted to have been composed somewhere in the range of 1591 and 1595, the play was first distributed in a quarto form in 1597. The content of the principal quarto adaptation was of low quality, be that as it may, and later versions rectified the content to adjust all the more intimately with Shakespeare's unique.

      Shakespeare's utilization of his lovely emotional structure (particularly impacts, for example, exchanging among parody and catastrophe to elevate strain, his development of minor characters, and his utilization of sub-plots to adorn the story) has been commended as an early indication of his sensational expertise. The play attributes diverse idyllic structures to various characters, now and then changing the structure as the character creates. Romeo, for instance, develops increasingly capable of the poem through the span of the play.

      Dramatis Personæ

      ESCALUS, Prince of Verona.

      MERCUTIO, kinsman to the Prince, and friend to Romeo.

      PARIS, a young Nobleman, kinsman to the Prince.

      Page to Paris.

      MONTAGUE, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Capulets.

      LADY MONTAGUE, wife to Montague.

      ROMEO, son to Montague.

      BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo.

      ABRAM, servant to Montague.

      BALTHASAR, servant to Romeo.

      CAPULET, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Montagues.

      LADY CAPULET, wife to Capulet.

      JULIET, daughter to Capulet.

      TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet.

      CAPULET’S COUSIN, an old man.

      NURSE to Juliet.

      PETER, servant to Juliet’s Nurse.

      SAMPSON, servant to Capulet.

      GREGORY, servant to Capulet.

      Servants.

      FRIAR LAWRENCE, a Franciscan.

      FRIAR JOHN, of the same Order.

      An Apothecary.

      CHORUS.

      Three Musicians.

      An Officer.

      Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, Watchmen and Attendants.

      SCENE. During the greater part of the Play in Verona; once, in the Fifth Act, at Mantua.

      THE PROLOGUE

      Enter Chorus .

      CHORUS.

      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 [¹] overthrows

      Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

      The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,

      And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

      Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,

      Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

      The which, if you with patient ears attend,

      What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

      [ Exit. ]

      ACT I

      SCENE I. A public place.

      Enter Sampson and Gregory armed with swords and bucklers.

      SAMPSON.

      Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.

      GREGORY.

      No, for then we should be colliers.

      SAMPSON.

      I mean, if we be in choler, we’ll draw.

      GREGORY.

      Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.

      SAMPSON.

      I strike quickly, being moved.

      GREGORY.

      But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

      SAMPSON.

      A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

      GREGORY.

      To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.

      SAMPSON.

      A dog of that house shall move me to stand.

      I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

      GREGORY.

      That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.

      SAMPSON.

      True, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.

      GREGORY.

      The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

      SAMPSON.

      ’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off their heads.

      GREGORY.

      The heads of the maids?

      SAMPSON.

      Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

      GREGORY.

      They must take it in sense that feel it.

      SAMPSON.

      Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

      GREGORY.

      ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues.

      Enter Abram and Balthasar .

      SAMPSON.

      My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

      GREGORY.

      How? Turn thy back and run?

      SAMPSON.

      Fear me not.

      GREGORY.

      No, marry; I fear thee!

      SAMPSON.

      Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

      GREGORY.

      I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list.

      SAMPSON.

      Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

      ABRAM.

      Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

      SAMPSON.

      I do bite

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1