Romeo And Juliet

From The Royal Shakespeare Company – A Fresh New Edition Of The Most Famous Of All Love Stories This Edition Includes: • An Illuminating Introduction To Romeo And Juliet By Award-winning Scholar Jonathan Bate • The Play - With Clear And Authoritative Explanatory Notes On Each Page • A Helpful Scene-by-scene Analysis And Key Facts About The Play • An Introduction To Shakespeare's Career And The Elizabethan Theatre • A Rich Exploration Of Approaches To Staging The Play Featuring Photographs Of Key Productions The Most Enjoyable Way To Understand A Shakespeare Play Is To See It Or Participate In It. This Unique Edition Presents A Historical Overview Of Romeo And Juliet In Performance, Recommends Film Versions, Takes A Detailed Look At Specific Productions And Includes Interviews With A Leading Director And Two Actors – Michael Attenborough, David Tennant And Alexandra Gilbreath – So That We May Get A Sense Of The Extraordinary Variety Of Interpretations That Are Possible, A Variety That Gives Shakespeare His Unique Capacity To Be Reinvented And Made 'our Contemporary' Four Centuries After His Death. Ideal For Students, Theatre-goers, Actors And General Readers, The Rsc Shakespeare Editions Offer An Accessible And Contemporary Approach To Reading And Rediscovering Shakespeare's Works For The Twenty-first Century.