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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare,

Paul Werstine (Editor),

Barbara A. Mowat (Editor),

Paavo Emil Cajander (Translator)

3.75 · Rating details · 2,072,456 ratings · 19,563 reviews

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 play set in an extraordina ...more

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Paperback, Folger Shakespeare Library Edition, 301 pages

Published January 1st 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1595)

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Mar 23, 2020 Trine Salbøg rated it really liked it

Jeg har set balkonen i Verona og forstår godt byens økonomiske fidus. For det hele er fiktion, men mennesket er nemt at narre. Fortællingen om Romeo og Julie rører hjertet, og så har vi altså brug for den balkon - eller nogen har. Jeg blev ret skuffet og savnede haven og alt det grønne, men skal jeg finde "the real one", så skal jeg læse Shakespeares version, for der er nemlig kun én af slagsen formet med ord og historie, og den balkon kan findes alle steder, i alles fantasi, i alle kulturer. Je ...more

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Oct 10, 2015 Christina Ruskjær rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Det er noget af en udfordring at læse dette stykke. Det er et meget kliché fyldt gammeldags sprog som er svær at forstå. Romeo er virkelig træls med han rørstrømske snak om kærlighed

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Feb 09, 2018 Katrine Mortensen rated it really liked it

Det er ikke handlingen der morede mig. Det pladder romantiske er bare ikke mig. Men til gengæld morede mange udtalelser mig i en sådan grad, at jeg fremover forventer at fornærme mine medmennesker med Shakespeare citater!!!

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Mar 29, 2012 Irene rated it it was amazing

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Så fik jeg endelig kastet mig over Shakespeare. Det tog mig en enkelt dag, at komme gennem historien og modsat mine forventninger, var det en rigtig spændende eftermiddag. Jeg havde hørt om stykket før, men aldrig selv læst eller set stykket. Det fortryder jeg nu. Jeg følte mig som en håbløs romantiker, da jeg vendte sidste side og nu har jeg bare lyst til, at gå ud og opleve en lige så stærk kærlighed. Når det så er sagt, så skal man huske på, at det her altså er en bog, et drama, hvor forfatte ...more

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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been tr William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.

At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

According to historians, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout the span of his life. Shakespeare's writing average was 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. There have been plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare that were not authentically written by the great master of language and literature.
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