Rank 63 of 100
Romeo and Juliet
Synopsis
Two teenagers in Verona fall in love in a city where their families have already chosen hatred. Shakespeare gives them a private language and a public disaster, and the speed of the plot is the tragedy: they are not given the week that might have saved them.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1597
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Play
- Genre
- Tragedy, Romance
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- 16th–17th century
- Movement
- Elizabethan
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 128 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read plays in any language
- Kind
- Fiction