ROMEO AND JULIET

 

Andrew Matthews (Adapter), Tony Ross (Illustrator),

This slipcase edition published in 2013

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun...A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet.

 When Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked ball it's love at first sight. But their families are sworn enemies, and the very next day a deadly brawl breaks out between the Montagues and Capulets. Young Romeo is caught up in the fighting and as punishment is banished from the city - and sent away from Juliet for ever...