Romeo and JulietPresents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. |
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... play . The earliest English version of the tale that has come down to us is a poem entitled The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet , written by Arthur Brooke , and pub- lished in 1562. This purports to be from the Italian of Bandello ...
... play . The earliest English version of the tale that has come down to us is a poem entitled The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet , written by Arthur Brooke , and pub- lished in 1562. This purports to be from the Italian of Bandello ...
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... play to which he refers has not survived , we have no means of knowing how the matter was there handled . In 1567 , five years after the date of Brooke's poem , a prose version of the same tale was published by William Paynter in his ...
... play to which he refers has not survived , we have no means of knowing how the matter was there handled . In 1567 , five years after the date of Brooke's poem , a prose version of the same tale was published by William Paynter in his ...
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... played . " The next issue of the play was in a quarto pamphlet dated 1599 , with the following on its title - page : " The most excellent and lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet , newly corrected , augmented , and amend- ed . As it ...
... played . " The next issue of the play was in a quarto pamphlet dated 1599 , with the following on its title - page : " The most excellent and lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet , newly corrected , augmented , and amend- ed . As it ...
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... play was augmented is shown in that the text of 1597 is not quite three - fourths as long as that of 1599. And the ... play which he left unchanged . The date more commonly assigned for the writing of the tragedy in its original form is ...
... play was augmented is shown in that the text of 1597 is not quite three - fourths as long as that of 1599. And the ... play which he left unchanged . The date more commonly assigned for the writing of the tragedy in its original form is ...
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... plays in these respects being , I think , too marked to escape any studious eye , well practised in discerning the Poet's different styles . And a comparison of Romeo and Juliet with the poetical portions of King Henry the Fourth ...
... plays in these respects being , I think , too marked to escape any studious eye , well practised in discerning the Poet's different styles . And a comparison of Romeo and Juliet with the poetical portions of King Henry the Fourth ...
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ancient art thou banished beauty BENVOLIO breath Collier's second folio crystal scales dead dear death dost doth dream Enter CAPULET Enter ROMEO Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell fear flower Friar LAURENCE gentle gentleman give gleek gone grave hand hath heart Heaven hence holy Houses Juliet Julius Cæsar kinsman kiss Lady CAPULET Lettsom lives look lord love's lovers Madam Mantua marriage married means Mercutio Montague nature night Nurse o'er old copies read old text pardonnez-mois Paris passion peace play Poet Poet's Prince quarrel quarto Romeo and Juliet Rosaline SCENE sense Servant Shakespeare slain sleep soul speak speech stay sweet tears tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art thou hast thou wilt to-night true Twelfth Night Tybalt Verona vex'd villain weep word