Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juilet is, of course, the classic Shakespeare tradegy that begins with a feud and ends in suicide. The Folger edition does a lovely job, ... (show more)

Romeo and Juilet is, of course, the classic Shakespeare tradegy that begins with a feud and ends in suicide. The Folger edition does a lovely job, with vocabulary referenced and plot points written right in - if you're going to read Shakespeare, read it in Folger's.
"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.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." (show less)