Jul 31, 2015 · In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers' final union in …

Nov 11, 2025 · Read and download Romeo and Juliet for free. Learn about this Shakespeare play, find scene-by-scene summaries, and discover more Folger resources.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the …

Aug 10, 2020 · Watch Janet Griffin, director of public programs and artistic producer of Folger Theatre, discuss Jean Cocteau's surreal Romeo et Juliette. The 1924 production's design was featured in the …

Jul 31, 2015 · In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers' final union in …

Jul 31, 2015 · In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers' final union in …

Romeo and Juliet was one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from the moment it was first performed and printed.

Explore the “bad quarto” of Romeo and Juliet (1597) in the Folger’s Digital Collections. In 1599 the Second Quarto, often called the “good quarto,” was published.

Mar 2, 2021 · When Romeo and Juliet reunite, it is only to see each other, dead, in the dim confines of the Capulet crypt. In this play the autonomy of romantic individualism remains “star-crossed.”

The dark threat to Romeo and Juliet is dramatized by Capulet’s subsequent invasion of Juliet’s bridal chamber to dissolve her marriage to Romeo by informing her of her upcoming wedding with Paris.