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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
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‘Romeo and Juliet’
William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)
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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.
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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.
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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