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  2 of 2 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 3 stars

  “Romeo and Juliet, even during Shakespeare’s lifetime, was one of his most-performed and best-loved plays.
  
  As a teenager, I enjoyed the archetypical “young love” story, but as an adult I like this play more for its use of language. As he later did in some of his English histories, Shakespeare uses different structures to denote people’s feelings. Juliet speaks formally to Paris, but in short phrases or single words to Romeo. And when Romeo tries to woo her with a sonnet (a form similar to that with which he earlier spoke of Rosaline), Juliet knows enough to try to stop him.
  
  My favorite character was always Mercutio, and while I felt that he was sacrificed to the gods of fiction, he provides a “hinge” between the comic and tragic aspects of the play.
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  Peach wrote this review Tuesday, February 12 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 0 stars

  “A story of romance and family fued, Romeo and Juliet is a story everyone should read. I read this my first year on high school and fell in love with it. Its all about different families not agreeing with eachother and trying to make a relationship work between the two families. No one agrees with their attraction with eachother but they can't help what they feel. This book is perfect for a class play or role playing. Reading from a script is fun to a lot of students and performing is something fun to do as well in the classroom. ”

  ashley p wrote this review Monday, April 14 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 2 stars

  “I'm only reading this because of English class. The old English makes it hard to understand, and Romeo's a bit too sappy for my taste, but it's something to read.”

  McKinley P wrote this review Friday, March 14 2008. ( reply | view 2 replies | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 3 stars

  “I consider this play to be Shakespeare's weakest. Young love is one thing, but Romeo and Juliet are just so childish and rebellious. The ending is awful. The older I get, the more I don't like this play. ”

  Kellyanne wrote this review Friday, February 15 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 5 stars

  “This play, while certainly tragic, has never seemed all that romantic to me. Instead, I see it as being about people who are hell-bent on getting their way, despite the costs.”

  Lady Dixie wrote this review Tuesday, July 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 2 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 4 stars

  “A decent story with some likable characters, but I've never really bought into the whole "love at first sight" thing. I found Romeo and Juliet's relationship sort of hard to believe and sympathize with, especially once I found out that they're only young teenagers. Mercutio was pretty great, though.”

  Egwene wrote this review Monday, June 23 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “What more could you want than reading one of Shakespeare's classics? Personally, I LOVED this tragedy. It has action, violence and of course romance. Everyone probably already knows the ending but this drama shows true, deep love.”

  Robert C wrote this review 16 hours ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 2 stars

  “i have to confess that i didn't like it very much..but i also have to admit that this is one of the greatest love stories ever written...should be read if u wish to see how sensible u r!!”

  ligie wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 4 stars

  “Our goal is to read at least one piece of Shakespeare a year together. This first year of formal reading aloud, we read Romeo and Juliet.
  It wasn't a total failure, but close. We were reading it during a busy tumutuous time, so our attention was just not good in the first place. Add to that Isaac's great unwillingness to read it in the first place. And although he usually comes around -- this time he did not. We ended up by not finishing reading it aloud together, but rather we read a synopsis of each scene aloud. Then we followed along in our books to a recording of the book being read aloud. This got us through it.
  Partly, I suspect that part of the reason Isaac could never allow himself to be drawn into the story, but rather kept getting bogged down in the language and mechanics is because he already knew the ending to the story.
  I am not sure which Shakespeare work we will attempt next.”

  Lavana H wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “A classic - everyone has to read this. ”

  Jennifer F wrote this review 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink )