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First performed sometime around 1596, Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo and Juliet, about the doomed romance between two star-crossed teenage lovers from feuding families is the most famous love story ever written, and has been adapted into ballets, an opera, the musical 'West-Side Story,' and more than a dozens films.
A fast-paced tragedy of thwarted love, this edition of Romeo and Juliet was produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (two of the most accomplished modern Shakespearian scholars) and incorporates definitive text along with authoritative notes, as well as provides an introduction, an overview of William Shakespeare's theatrical career, commentary on past and current productions, scene-by-scene analysis, key facts about the work, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and complimentary black-and-white illustrations.