Romeo and Juliet
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First performed in the mid-1590s, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of young love caught in the grip of an ancient feud. In Verona, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall passionately in love, despite belonging to two families whose bitter hostility makes their union dangerous from the outset. Through secret meetings, hurried vows and a desperate attempt to escape the forces arrayed against them, Shakespeare traces the fragile hopes of two young people in a world governed by family honour, social expectation and sudden violence.
Both an intimate portrait of first love and a searching examination of inherited hatred, Romeo and Juliet balances lyrical tenderness with an ever-present sense of impending disaster. Shakespeare’s extraordinary range of language moves from playful wit to soaring poetry, capturing the intensity of desire and the terrible speed with which youthful impulsiveness can turn to tragedy. Its influence on literature, theatre, music and cinema has been immense, establishing Romeo and Juliet as enduring figures in the cultural imagination and making the play one of the defining works of English Renaissance drama.
From the book
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
On Romeo and Juliet
“For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet