This CGP Text Guide contains everything you need to write top-grade essays about Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet. Its suitable for all GCSE English exams, including the new ones starting in summer 2017. Inside, youll find clear, thorough notes on the plays plot, characters, language, themes and historical context - with quick questions, in-depth questions and exam-style questions included at the end of every section. Theres also plenty of exam advice to help you improve your grades, plus a cartoon-strip summary of the whole play at the back of the book!

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.