Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a rich resource for students, teachers, •and the general reader.

Button Raffel's on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English. pronunciation, prosody. and alternative readings of phrases and lines, And in his introduction he provides histoncal and social contexts that increase the reader's understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Romeo and Juliet is unmatched in the world's literature as a vision of an uncompromising love. --back cover