A prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about two young people who fall in love despite their families' age-old feud. Includes background information, character summary, and commonly asked questions.
This book features in the following series: The Young Reader's Shakespeare, The Young Readers Shakespeare .
There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Sterling Juvenile .
Mr. Fiore lives along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania with his family. Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Adam McKeown has taught Shakespeare, Renaissance culture, and writing at New York University, Clarkson University, and Princeton, and is currently a professor at Adelphi University in Long Island.
This book contains the following story:
Romeo and Juliet
Two warring families in fair Verona - The Montagues and the Capulets - struggle to settle an age old feud. Meanwhile, Romeo, a Montague, meets the beautiful Juliet and they instantly fall deeply in love. All is not well, however, as she is a Capulet, and their families' rivalry threatens to tear their forbidden love apart.