Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)

Shakespeare, William

ISBN 10: 0553455370 ISBN 13: 9780553455373

Verlag: Bantam Audio, 1994

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A BBC radio performance of Shakespeare's classic tragedy of family feuds and young love.

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"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings around the world in mediums that include literature, dance, stage, and screen.

"It is Shakespear all over, and Shakespear when he was young," declares William Hazlitt (1778-1830), acclaimed British essayist and critic, in his exuberant Introduction to this Modern Library edition.

"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventuríd piteous overthrows, Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
--Prologue
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Verlag: Bantam Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0553455370
• ISBN 13: 9780553455373
• Einband: CD de audio