A Shakespeare Story: Romeo And Juliet

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By Andrew Matthews, and and, Tony Ross
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But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun… A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare’s most famous love story. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross’s engaging black-and-white illustrations, each play is vividly brought to life allowing these culturally enriching stories to be shared with as wide an audience as possible.
Have you read all of The Shakespeare Stories books? Available in this series: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and King Lear.
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The story starts off happy when Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at the Caplet’s party. We soon find out that Romeo and Juliet families. the capulets and Montagues don’t get on, as fights between the two families breakout. Romeo and Juliet ignore the family feud and marry in secret later in the story Romeo kill’s himself thinking Juliet is dead and then when Juliet wakes from her deep sleep, kills herswld too after realises the plan had gone wrong. My favourite character was Romeo. Yes I would recognise book.
A classic Shakespearean love story - I like the scene when Juliet fell asleep. I would recommend to my best friend.
It was very sad juliet would be my favourite because i heard it was sad and i wanted to see if it was sad and it was yes i would recommend it to someone who likes sad stories
I like the book but it's not my style because I love reading big and adventurous books. I would recommend this book for people who likes Shakespeare book and it interested me because I like Romeo and Juliet. My favourite character is Juliet because she was brave and gave her life for her lover. I would recommend it for 10 years and above.
Brilliant reads for young William shakespeare fans. Boxset must have
This is one of the famous books of Shakespeare. A story of love and lots of drama. I really enjoyed reading it.
I got the Shakespeare collection for Christmas, and the first book I read from it was this. I enjoyed how at the end when they both died, both cultures forgot about the fight, as though they carried the fight with them.
Two familys the Monatagues and Capulets are enemes they are always arguing . As it says there are two people one from the montagues and capulets that have fallen in love they will love to express there love but the cant not there parents will go crazy .
So intriguing and fun, a perfect Love story
Why were they not allowed to meet each other?
I liked it because it was very interesting.
my favorite character was Romeo because he was sensible behavior-wise.
It was a bit over age for me but I enjoyed it!
I found it really sad
I really like this book because it showed the love and hate of the Montaguges 9 Romeos family ) and Capulets ( Juliets family) . My favourite part was when they wanted to marry each other but they couldn’t so a friar gave Juliet a potion which will make her sleep for 2 days and people will think she is dead and the friar could drop her off to Romeo where they could get married but it didn’t go to plan. Unfortunately, Romeo thought she was dead and drank poison next to her. She woke up and realised her was dead and stabbed her heart which showed she loved him .
It is a very fun book to read. I really enjoyed it because there are strong feelings in it
Can’t believe after a week of knowing each other they sacrificed there life to be with each other in heaven
I loved it, truly an amazing book and the ending was amazing too!
It is a amazing book.I really like it.It is fiction.My favorite character is Juliet.
it nice but boring.
Mercuetio is the best character because he dies but he says cool speeches. I would recommend.
This book is very sad because they both died at the end of the book, they both sacrificed there life for each other. My favourite character was Juliet Because she was very kind and it was very nice because the two families kind of became friends at the end. I would definitely want To recommend this book to everyone It is a very nice book I love Shakespeare’s books they very lovely.
After reading the book my thought where that it was a nice book to read, it had lovely bits of poetry and lots of romance, the sad part was that there was death at the end. I loved it Romeo and Juliet had lots of love for each other.
I could not decided between Romeo and Juliet I loved the both the characters.
Yes, would recommend it to some of my friends.
I thought this book was very romantic.
It was fiction, I liked Romeo best.
It was interesting because a man called Romeo fell in love with Juliet and died beside her.
I would recommend this book because it is very cute.
I enjoyed reading Romeo and Juliet because it's about love. Romeo wants to marry Juliet because she is beautiful.
One of the best books I’ve ever read! The love was just so sweet and strong! The first time I read this book it made me emotional!
This story was very sad as Juliet pretended that she was dead and when Romeo saw her he thought she actually died so he killed himself. After Juliet seen him dead she killed herself too.
Romeo and Juliet are two lovebirds who both sadly die. Juliet faked death and Romeo killed himself believing Juliet was dead. Seeing Romeo dead, Juliet killed herself too.
it t was okay but it was a very romeantic book
I didn’t really like this book because it’s too dramatic and there’s a sad ending.
I really liked this book because it was really interesting and at the end where they both die and it was a bit sad because the person who gave Juliet the bottle with the sleeping liquid inside new he was the one who killed them both because if he didn’t give Juliet that they wouldn’t be dead.