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    Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
    Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
    Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
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    Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by Full Cast Dramatization

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    About this audiobook

    FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
    The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies

    The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

    In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare creates a tragic 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. This play, set in an extraordinary world, has become the quintessential story of young love.

    This new full-cast recording—based on the most respected edition of Shakespeare’s classic—expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781442374317
    Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is not known but is traditionally 23 April, St George's Day. Aged 18, he married a Stratford farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. A member of the leading theatre group in London, the Chamberlain's Men, which built the Globe Theatre and frequently performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and much poetry besides. He died in 1616.

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    • 5/5
      Always fun to revisit a classic, but taking the time to listen rather than read or watch added another layer to the story for me.
    • 3/5
      It's okay. And I love the Queen Mab speech. And look, Shakespeare's SHAKESPEARE. Man knows how to write. And I get that it's not a love story and that Shakespeare knows this. Just. Everyone in this story needs to calm down like forty notches. It's histrionic. And I love Catcher in the Rye, so when I say something's histrionic, I mean it.
    • 5/5
      Some people think Shakespeare is too old, outdated and overrated. However, when I can read something for the 14th time, and STILL find new things in it? Obviously that means the author did something right.

      The themes that appear in this play: love, suicide, hate, and revenge being some of them are very relevant to the youth of today. The feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is one that mirrors that of gangs in modern times. And it's interesting that I can lead students through this text, and they can say how stupid it is that Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, how dumb it is for the families to be feuding....and then trying to show them that gangs are the same, well that is the challenge.

      Hopefully this play also brings to light what a msitake it is to take one's own life out of love. This play hits a personal note there, knowing a student who did that to herself last year.

      Romeo and Juliet is a CLASSIC that should be taught to students everywhere. It is not something that should be pushed aside because it is 'too hard' or 'written weird' (arguments I hear at my school). It is not too difficult for students to read, although it will take support from the teacher.

    • 5/5
      This is a great romantic tragedy, which I had to read for my Intro. to Drama class. This is one of those works of Shakespeare that has been done in a multitude of forms and variations, so it is quite likely that everyone has a rough idea of the story. Still, you really cannot replace the original. There is a lot of unbelievable story to it, which can overdo it to the point of being distracting, but overall the language and story are so supremely memorable that it automatically qualifies as a must-read. As to the edition itself, I found it to be greatly helpful in understanding the action in the play. It has a layout which places each page of the play opposite a page of notes, definitions, explanations, and other things needed to understand that page more thoroughly. While I didn't always need it, I was certainly glad to have it whenever I ran into a turn of language that was unfamiliar, and I definitely appreciated the scene-by-scene summaries. Really, if you want to or need to read Shakespeare, an edition such as this is really the way to go, especially until you get more accustomed to it.
    • 2/5
      I always want to smack everyone for being so stupid.
    • 2/5
      My least favorite so far by Shakespeare, only one worse is a Mid Summer-night's Dream, ugh. I like the concept of this story, but can't understand why she didn't just run away when he was exiled? I mean it's not like that was too far of a stretch? She had given/done everything else in her power for him.
    • 5/5
      It was fun to listen to the narration in character!
    • 4/5
      I think this play is still quite relevant today. Very satirical. Romeo and Juliet obviously didn't have an absolute comprehension of love, which turns modern audiences away.
    • 1/5
      The only shallow, boring, and vacuous work of Shakespeare I’ve ever read. Frankly it sends a bad message that heartbreak is the end of the world. Unlikeable, boring, self-absorbed characters.
    • 5/5
      I think this play is strongly moving and powerfully evocative.Shakespeare's trademark lyrical prose and impressive poetry are bedewed throughout the piece.This play needs to be updated from 1611 English to 1982 English.
    • 1/5
      Romeo and Juliet are quite possibly my least favorite romantic couple of all time. I can appreciate this as a classic, but cannot quite summon any genuine affection for it. I occupied my time reading this book by attempting to ship Juliet and Friar Laurence, although there is very limited textual support.
    • 4/5
      It was pretty good but some parts were confusing.
    • 4/5
      I love the idea of a fully dramatised audiobook as it brings the book alive. However, for Shakespeare i think it would be better to use specific accents. Actors speaking in the style/tradition of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England seem to add a certain je ne sais quoi. For me American accents etc do not always compliment Shakespearean plays.
    • 5/5
      The definitive edition of this play for 21st century academics. Weis is an intelligent editor who shows an objective viewpoint when looking at textual cruxes, and really provides a decent overview of the scholarship on the text. Perhaps the introduction doesn't cover the text in a literary analysis sense, but I suppose there are more highschool-oriented texts out there for that. Very good, and - while not perhaps in my Top 5 of the current Arden series - an example of what the Arden editions aspire to be.
    • 3/5
      A classic book that has been rehashed and regurgitated ad nauseum for almost 500 years, it's little surprise why screenwriters and book authors keep on basing stories from this tragic love story of two innocents from warring families that outright detest each other.

      Now, I know, every high school in English majority nations have plastered this author's books as the best pieces of literature of all time. For better or worse, I was not raised in a country where English is the official language and never really grew up with his work. When I finally did get a chance to read this story (translated to Spanish), maybe it was the translation that lost some of the poetic lyricism, but I found the book very hard to follow.

      I probably also felt disconnected with it because the book was written such a long time ago that the phrases used seem out of style or hard to understand. It really bogged the immersion and fun factor and made it a bit of a chore to read.

      Still, the plot is great, but I would have probably enjoyed it more if there was a more modernized and less poetic version of the prose to aid in my commoner ears.
    • 5/5
      O teach me how I should forget to think

      I was prepared to be underwhelmed by a jaded near fifty return to this plethora of love-anchored verse. It was quite the opposite, as I found myself steeled with philosophy "adversity's sweet milk" and my appreciation proved ever enhanced by the Bard's appraisal of the human condition. How adroit to have situated such between two warring tribes, under a merciful deity, an all-too-human church and the wayward agency of hormonal teens. Many complain of this being a classic Greek drama adapted to a contemporary milieu. There is also a disproportionate focus on the frantic pacing in the five acts. I can appreciate both concerns but I think such is beyond the point. The chorus frames matters in terms of destiny, a rumination on Aristotelian tragedy yet the drama unfolds with caprice being the coin of the realm. Well, as much agency as smitten couples can manage. Pacing is a recent phenomenon, 50 episodes for McNulty to walk away from the force, a few less for Little Nell to die.

      Shakespeare offers insights on loyalty and human frailty as well as the Edenic cursing of naming in some relative ontology. Would Heidegger smell as sweet? My mind's eye blurs the poise of Juliet with that of Ophelia; though no misdeeds await the Capulet, unless being disinherited by Plath's Daddy is the road's toll to a watery sleep. The black shoe and the attendant violent delights.
    • 3/5
      Classic... what else is there to say?
    • 5/5
      I read this fall semester of my freshman year of high school, and have loved it ever since--it remains one of my most favorite books/plays.
    • 5/5
      The First Folio edition has it all! It is so interesting to see what has been cut through the years. Still my favorite Shakespeare!
    • 5/5
      Didn't like the ending.
    • 2/5
      I don't get the hype. I find Romeo to be completely annoying and the story is just frustrating. Worse is trying to see modern film adaptations of the same story, where life-or-death lost messages is impossible. I don't see the point in reading this story except to promote cultural literacy (in which case, a plot summary would suffice).
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Shakespeare plays. Very hard for me to step back and give an objective review of this one, which has managed to hold my attention for many years. This last rereading proved to be no exception. I find that I've subconsciously memorized some of the dialogue over the years and still look forward to the appearance of certain lines and certain action. I need to continue to revisit this play.
    • 4/5
      Having to do an essay about it made me appreciate it more. It’s a very humorous tragedy.
    • 4/5
      I enjoy this story because of the language. Half of the enjoyment is in reading and getting the double meanings and picking up the slang and language of a time long ago.Other than that though I find Romeo and Juliet to be the utmost in TSTL (Too Stupid To Live) hero/heroines - and indeed they are the ultimate TSTL as well, they don't live in the end.To go on shaky misinformation and non communication to decided to kill yourself? Talk about a couple of idiots.
    • 3/5
      Beautiful language, classic Shakespeare.
    • 4/5
      This frayed beauty of a long ago created book has the most grieved, nut stunning end of all time.
    • 4/5
      this is a love story, and it is a tragedy.Remeo and Juliet's families are enemy. but in this story is told us if you are falling in love, everything will be possible, and you will be brave.
    • 5/5
      A first-class presentation of this Shakespeare play. The cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Samantha Bond, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Richard Briers, Derek Jacobi and Simon Callow.
    • 3/5
      Like most, I imagine, I was forced to read this in high school (freshman year, specifically). I was no fan of Shakespeare at the time, though I've since come around somewhat. While I've not read it since, I've no real desire to. They're just a couple of horny teenagers thinking they're experiencing true love and all that. For that reason, this work does not entertain me as one might want. However, I do appreciate what it's lent to our culture, and specifically to derivative works. Without this book, we would not have West Side Story, which I do happen to be fond of.
    • 5/5
      Worth reading for the balcony scene alone.