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    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786562784
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare

      The Complete Works of

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      VOLUME 10 OF 74

      Romeo and Juliet

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2012

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Romeo and Juliet’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 278 4

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 10 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Romeo and Juliet from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      IN 74 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Henry  VI, Part 2

      2, Henry  VI, Part 3

      3, Henry  VI, Part 1

      4, Richard  III

      5, The Comedy of Errors

      6, Titus Andronicus

      7, Taming of the Shrew

      8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

      10, Romeo and Juliet

      11, Richard II

      12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      13, King John

      14, The Merchant of Venice

      15, Henry IV, Part I

      16, Henry IV, Part II

      17, Much Ado About Nothing

      18, Henry V

      19, Julius Caesar

      20, As You Like It

      21, Twelfth Night

      22, Hamlet

      23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

      24, Troilus and Cressida

      25, All’s Well that Ends Well

      26, Measure for Measure

      27, Othello

      28, King Lear

      29, Macbeth

      30, Antony and Cleopatra

      31, Coriolanus

      32, Timon of Athens

      33, Pericles

      34, Cymbeline

      35, The Winter’s Tale

      36, The Tempest

      37, Henry  VIII

      38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

      The Lost Plays

      39, The Lost Plays

      The Sources

      40, The Plays’ Sources

      The Apocryphal Plays

      41, Arden of Faversham

      42, The Birth of Merlin

      43, King Edward  III

      44, Locrine

      45, The London Prodigal

      46, The Puritan

      47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

      48, Sir John Oldcastle

      49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

      50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

      51, Sir Thomas More

      52, Fair Em

      53, Mucedorus

      54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

      55, Edmund Ironside

      56, Thomas of Woodstock

      57, Vortigern and Rowena

      The Adaptations

      58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

      The Poetry

      59, The Sonnets

      60, Venus and Adonis

      61, The Rape of Lucrece

      62, The Passionate Pilgrim

      63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

      64, A Lover’s Complaint

      The Apocryphal Poetry

      65, To the Queen

      66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

      67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

      The Criticism

      68, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

      70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

      71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

      72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

      73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

      Resources

      74, Resources

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      Romeo and Juliet

      This tragedy was created by Shakespeare in 1592 and has become one of the most famous works of literature ever written.  The plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both texts, but added the supporting characters Mercutio and Paris himself.  Shakespeare’s use of dramatic structure, especially switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to complement the story, have been identified as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play is well renowned for its eternal tale of forbidden love, which has inspired filmmakers and writers across the world for hundreds of years.

      Shakespeare’s main source text for this play is available via this link.

      The Quarto first printing of the play

      CONTENTS

      Dramatis Personæ

      Prologue.

      Act I. Scene I.

      Act I. Scene II.

      Act I. Scene III.

      Act I. Scene IV.

      Act I. Scene V.

      Act II. Prologue.

      Act II. Scene I.

      Act II. Scene II.

      Act II. Scene III.

      Act II. Scene IV.

      Act II. Scene V.

      Act II. Scene VI.

      Act III. Scene I.

      Act III. Scene II.

      Act III. Scene III.

      Act III. Scene IV.

      Act III. Scene V.

      Act IV. Scene I.

      Act IV. Scene II.

      Act IV. Scene III.

      Act IV. Scene IV.

      Act IV. Scene V.

      Act V. Scene I.

      Act V. Scene II.

      Act V. Scene III.

      The 1968 Zeferelli film version

      The famous musical inspired by Shakespeare’s play

      The popular 2003 Baz Luhrmann film adaptation

      A 2010 animation film - an example of how wide-reaching Shakespeare’s influence has been

      Dramatis Personæ

      ESCALUS, Prince of Verona.

      PARIS, a young Nobleman, Kinsman to the Prince.

      MONTAGUE & CAPULET, Heads of two Houses at variance with each other.

      Uncle to Capulet.

      ROMEO, son to Montague.

      MERCUTIO, Kinsman to the Prince, & BENVOLIO, Nephew to Montague: Friends to Romeo.

      TYBALT, Nephew to Lady Capulet.

      FRIAR LAURENCE, a Franciscan.

      FRIAR JOHN, of the same Order.

      BALTHASAR, Servant to Romeo.

      SAMPSON & GREGORY: Servants to Capulet.

      PETER, Servant to Juliet’s Nurse.

      ABRAHAM, Servant to Montague.

      An Apothecary.

      Three Musicians.

      Page to Mercutio; Page to Paris; another Page; an Officer.

      LADY MONTAGUE, Wife to Montague.

      LADY CAPULET, Wife to Capulet.

      JULIET, Daughter to Capulet.

      Nurse to Juliet.

      Citizens of Verona; male and female Kinsfolk to both Houses; Masquers, Guards, Watchmen and Attendants.

      Chorus.

      SCENE. — Verona: Once (in the Fifth Act), at Mantua.

      Prologue.

      Enter Chorus.

      Chor.  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.   5

      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.

      The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,   10

      And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

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

      Is now the two hours’ traffick of our stage;

      The which if you with patient ears attend,

      What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.  [Exit.   15

      Act I. Scene I.

      Verona.  A Public Place.

      Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, armed with swords and bucklers.

      Sam.  Gregory, o’ my word, we’ll not carry coals.

      Gre.  No. for then we should be colliers.

      Sam.  I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.   5

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

      Sam.  I strike quickly, being moved.

      Gre.  But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

      Sam.  A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

      Gre.  To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if thou art moved, thou runnest away.   10

      Sam.  A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

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

      Sam.  ’Tis 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

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