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Play · c. 1595

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Play · c. 1595 · English · Renaissance

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Two adolescents invent a private language in a city that has no room for it.

TragedyRomanceLoveHasteFeud

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English reading edition

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How to read it

The lovers speak in shared sonnets; the world speaks in prose and swords. The tragedy is one of timing, not of fate.

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