Romeo and Juliet

I bought this book for my daughter to use at school. I'm very dissatisfied with the quality of it and the shipping. When I received my package the box was destroyed the front cover of the book has something black all over it and the pages are folded down. It was supposed to be a new book not damaged and used. I would not recommend buying this item at all

The paper cover was full of sticky fingerprints. It was clearly used and it has a sticker that’s imposible to remove without destroying the paper.

Very nice and detailed, illustrations and covers look great. Original edition if you're looking for something different, however do bear in mind the size: the book is quite small, even smaller than regular pocket editions.

Have I been successfully avoiding this play until now? Yes. Did I love it? Of course, I did. It’s been more than two years since I read anything Shakespeare, and truth be told, I missed it. It’s always the same. I tell myself to pick up a Wouldiwas Shookethspeared play I haven’t read yet, but I’m overcome by laziness and a general lack of self-discipline every time. When I do pick one up, however, I end up loving it every single time. The power of the Bard, I guess! I believe my reasoning for avoiding the play for such a long time is easy to understand: it’s the one Shakespeare play that is most ingrained in pop culture. EVERYONE knows at least the basics, and how the story ends is not exactly a well-kept secret. The play has been taken apart and analysed and re-imagined and adapted so many times, you do not only lose count of the pieces that make up the Romeo and Juliet verse, but you also quickly lose any kind of interest in the seemingly generic story of two very dumb love-stricken heterosexual fools falling in love with each other. But, and here comes my big but, despite all these things and my previous knowledge of the story, I very much enjoyed reading the Bard’s most famous play. It took the help of a dictionary (reading Shakespeare do be hard for non-native speakers of English) to be able to fully appreciate what he wrote (and there are still terms and words I don’t understand). Still, I absolutely love getting lost in his writing, reading passages, again and again, discovering tragic and depth or just pure sarcasm and banter in between the lines. Shakespeare is one of those authors that make me grab a pencil and do the unimaginable: write in my books! His choice of words and language is one for the ages (or so I hope). This is not a university paper (thank God), but I do want to address some of the most popular negative reviews on here focusing on what Nate described as “enlightened adults injecting this into our youth as a classic love story for the generations, providing further support for their angst-filled false ideas of love and marriage (...)” It sure is interesting that many reviewers say it’s the play aka Shakespeare himself that ‘elevates’ a story about two teenagers falling in love into the greatest love story of all time. Because actually, "that's not the truth, Ellen." Obviously, it was not Shakespeare who elevated the story of Romeo and Juliet into the greatest love story of all time. That would be the thousands of teachers, professors, scholars, even teenagers themselves, who continue to falsely put this play on a pedestal and worship it as “the greatest love story ever written”. This is a piece of fiction – highbrow literature – and as such, everyone has the right to interpret it as they wish. There is no right or wrong when it comes to literary interpretations, there is only plausible and less plausible. However, and here comes my interpretation, I think a case can be made – and a valid one at that – that Shakespeare never meant to sell this as a play about the power and beauty of love. Quite the contrary. I believe that Shakespeare meant to showcase how blind love can make people, how love can make people act silly, destructive, stupid, and proud. He never meant for this play to be taken as an example of how unconditional love should look like. If anything, Romeo’s infatuation with Rosaline (he says that "[t]he all-seeing sun / ne'er saw her match since first the world begun") that vanishes into thin air the second he clamps eyes on Juliet, is a clear sign of how inconsistent and fickle he is. Who are we to know how long he would have loved Juliet if they hadn’t died so early? Would it only have taken another woman, prettier than Juliet, for him to fall in love again? Very likely. When we assess his and Juliet’s relationship, we need to keep in mind his fickleness and tendency to throw everything overboard in the blink of an eye. This inherent characteristic flaw of his, together with Juliet’s childish naivete and inexperience, is the foundation upon which their relationship is built and doomed to fall. The reader, as well as Shakespeare, knows that this is absolutely not how an ideal romantic relationship should look like. The death of two protagonists is what makes this play a tragedy but is the fact that they committed suicide rather than living without the other just tragic for the sake of a love that was never meant to be, or are their deaths a literary means employed to tell the reader that stupidity, recklessness, acting against your family’s will, and abandoning reason must be punished? What I love about this play is its ambiguity and ability to provoke discussions even more than 400 years after ‘publication’, but I believe that it’s worth asking yourself this one question: Was Romeo and Juliet really written as a great love story or where you just fed the belief that this play is the most romantic story ever by a society that continues to seek positivity and validation in tragic heterosexual love stories even though they might have been written to warn against the dangers of young love?

It’s came back to front. The page marker ribbon is glued to a page.

Viste inte att boken var så liten i den serien. Fint men väldigt väldigt liten med jätte små bokstäver, mycket mindre än i en pocketbok.

Eu amei essa edição, me apaixonei completamente, peguei na promoção e não esperava muito mas me surpreendeu demais! Coisa mais linda, um dos mais lindos que tenho na estante