Romeo and Juliet Home Page

This is the Home Page for Romeo and Juliet. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Romeo and Juliet (Modern)
    
  • Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)
    
  • Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
    
  • Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 2, 1599)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Romeo and Juliet

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Romeo and Juliet, Quarto 1 (1597)
  Garrick copy from British Library, London
• Romeo and Juliet, Quarto 2 (1599)
  George III copy from British Library, London

Pages from the "Life and Times" that discuss Romeo and Juliet

• Romeo and Juliet
  
• Is Romeo and Juliet a tragedy?
  
• Youth and marriage
  
• Star-crossed lovers?
  
• Feasts, revels, and masques
  
• Friar Lawrence and medicinal herbs
  
• Staging Romeo and Juliet
  

List of performances related to Romeo and Juliet

• Romeo and Juliet (1956, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1963, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1969, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1999, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Canada)
• romeo and juliet (2005, CHAMBERshakespearecompany, Ireland)
• The Immortal Passado (1976, Jeff Baynes, GB)
• Burlesque on Romeo and Juliet (1902, Georges Méliès, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1947, GB)
• Romeo and Juliet (1954, USSR)
• Romeo and Juliet (1954, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1964, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1966, Paul Czinner, GB)
• Romeo and Juliet (1967, Alan Cooke, GB)
• Romeo and Juliet in Kansas City (1975, Alan Miller, USA)
• Romeo and Juliet (1976, Paul Bosner)
• Romeo and Juliet (1976, Joan Kemp-Welch, GB)
• Footnotes to Romeo and Juliet (1976, GB)
• Romeo and Juliet (1977, Rudolph Nureyev, Italy)
• Romeo and Juliet (1978, Alvin Rakoff, GB)
• Romeo and Juliet (1978, Barbara Denkow, GB)
• 152 more performances...

Summary list of artifacts related to the play Romeo and Juliet

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Romeo and Juliet Penguin Classics Teachers' Guide
  Reed, Arthea J.S. "Teachers' Guides: Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
• An Invitation to the Pleasure of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity
  Urkowitz, Steven. "'Do me the kindnes to looke vpon this' and 'Heere, read, read': An Invitation to the Pleasures of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Urkowitz identifies radically different conceptions of several scenes between the quarto and folio versions of Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor of which editors of the modern texts rarely make readers aware:
• "Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts": Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens
  Steele, Kenneth B. "'Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts': Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Steele looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream's play-within-a-play to examine the influence of the Petrarchan idiom and Romeo and Juliet:
• Romeus and Juliet
  The poem by Arthur Brooke, Romeus and Juliet, was used by Shakespeare as the source for his play Romeo and Juliet. A step-by-step summary of Brooke's poem is provided at Shakespeare Navigators: