romeo and juliet

Explore the characters, themes, motifs, and modern interpretations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet all in modern English.

A humorous choose-your-own adventure retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

The Stratford Zoo is like any other zoo...until closing time! That's when the animals come out of their cages to perform Shakespeare's greatest works. In the zoo's after-hours production of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a bear, Romeo is "a rooster of great passion," and the hecklers are as entertaining as the main attraction.

Presents teacher-tested classroom strategies for teaching William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Macbeth"; techniques for teaching them through performance; and four scholarly essays on the plays, designed to stimulate teachers' thinking and challenge older students.

Follow a group of amateur actors from a poor neighborhood in London as they attempt to put on Romeo and Juliet. Director Baz Luhrmann oversees intense rehearsals to ingrain within them the significance of Shakespeare's play.

Presents the text of "Romeo and Juliet," in which the love between two young people from noble Veronese houses is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families, and includes introductory and textual notes, character lists and studies, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare.

A collection of critical essays that examine various aspects of the Shakespeare drama "Romeo and Juliet," discussing issues of sexuality and gender, the author's practice of composition and revision, and the significance of the character Mercutio.