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A Shakespeare Story: Romeo And Juliet

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A Shakespeare Story: Romeo And Juliet by Andrew Matthews, and Tony Ross

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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.

Reviews

30 Dec 2024

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.

31 Aug 2024

A classic Shakespearean love story - I like the scene when Juliet fell asleep. I would recommend to my best friend.

27 Jul 2024

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

29 Jun 2024

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.

13 Feb 2024

Brilliant reads for young William shakespeare fans. Boxset must have

08 Feb 2024

This is one of the famous books of Shakespeare. A story of love and lots of drama. I really enjoyed reading it.

29 Jan 2024

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.

04 Dec 2023

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 .

21 Aug 2023

So intriguing and fun, a perfect Love story

20 Aug 2023

Why were they not allowed to meet each other?

13 Aug 2023

I liked it because it was very interesting.
my favorite character was Romeo because he was sensible behavior-wise.

09 Aug 2023

It was a bit over age for me but I enjoyed it!

30 Jul 2023

I found it really sad

23 Jul 2023

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 .

20 Jul 2023

It is a very fun book to read. I really enjoyed it because there are strong feelings in it

16 Jul 2023

Can’t believe after a week of knowing each other they sacrificed there life to be with each other in heaven

14 Jul 2023

I loved it, truly an amazing book and the ending was amazing too!

04 Jul 2023

It is a amazing book.I really like it.It is fiction.My favorite character is Juliet.

03 Jun 2023

it nice but boring.

04 Sep 2022

Mercuetio is the best character because he dies but he says cool speeches. I would recommend.

24 Aug 2022

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.

31 Jul 2022

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.

28 Jul 2022

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.

22 Jul 2022

I enjoyed reading Romeo and Juliet because it's about love. Romeo wants to marry Juliet because she is beautiful.

26 Jun 2022

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!

31 May 2022

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.

04 Jan 2022

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.

10 Sep 2021

it t was okay but it was a very romeantic book

07 Sep 2021

I didn’t really like this book because it’s too dramatic and there’s a sad ending.

31 Aug 2021

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.

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