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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare; Barbara A Mowat; Paul Werstine; Gail Kern Paster; Folger Shakespeare Library.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.
Series: New Folger Library Shakespeare.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : Simon & Schuster pbk. ed., Updated edView all editions and formats
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Contains the dramatic text of William Shakespeare's tragic play about the forbidden love between two young people from feuding Veronese houses, and includes commentary, notes, and details about the life of the author.
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Genre/Form: Drama
Named Person: Romeo, (Fictitious character); Juliet, (Fictitious character); Juliet, (Fictitious character); Romeo, (Fictitious character)
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Shakespeare; Barbara A Mowat; Paul Werstine; Gail Kern Paster; Folger Shakespeare Library.
ISBN: 9781451621709 1451621701
OCLC Number: 687667033
Notes: At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library.
"An updated edition with detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies"--Cover.
Description: lxii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet --
Reading Shakespeare's language --
Shakespeare's life --
Shakespeare's theater --
Publication of Shakespeare's plays --
Introduction to this text --
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet : text of the play with commentary --
Longer notes --
Textual notes --
Romeo and Juliet, a modern perspective / by Gail Kern Paster --
Further reading --
Key to famous lines and phrases.
Series Title: New Folger Library Shakespeare.
Other Titles: Romeo and Juliet
Responsibility: by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.

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Contains the dramatic text of William Shakespeare's tragic play about the forbidden love between two young people from feuding Veronese houses, and includes commentary, notes, and details about the life of the author.

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