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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by
Feuding families—the Montagues and Capulets. Star-crossed lovers—Romeo and Juliet. A street brawl and a masquerade ball. Comedy and tragedy. Murder and revenge. True romance. A secret marriage. A double suicide. This manga edition features a four-page introduction that sets the stage and a text that’s abridged, but retains Shakespeare’s original language, setting, and time. Packed with action and emotion, it is the ideal way to explore Shakespeare’s timeless themes and appreciate his immortal love scenes.
ISBN: 9780470097588Publication Date: 2008-01-25
Star-Crossed by
A romantic anthology of epic love stories through time Featuring tales from Greek mythology to 20th century artists and from Shakespearean characters through to 19th century poets, this is a book for teens and twenty-somethings who may be well versed in 21st century romance, but will be reassured by discovering that finding true love has never been easy.
ISBN: 9781742756721Publication Date: 2013-02-01
We were liars by
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends - the Liars - whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth.
Call Number: F LOCISBN: 9781760111069Publication Date: 2014
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Did you know?
Shakespeare did not invent the story of Romeo and Juliet. He did not, in fact, even introduce the story into the English language. A poet named Arthur Brooks first brought the story of Romeus and Juliet to an English-speaking audience in a long and plodding poem that was itself not original, but rather an adaptation of adaptations that stretched across nearly a hundred years and two languages. Many of the details of Shakespeare’s plot are lifted directly from Brooks’s poem, including the meeting of Romeo and Juliet at the ball, their secret marriage, Romeo’s fight with Tybalt, the sleeping potion, and the timing of the lover’s eventual suicides. Such appropriation of other stories is characteristic of Shakespeare, who often wrote plays based on earlier works.
(SparkNotes Editors. (2007). SparkNote on Romeo and Juliet. Retrieved 8 August, 2016, from http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/)
Infographic
- Romeo and Juliet | Infographic
Great overview of the play in graphic format.
