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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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Romeo & Juliet | William Shakespeare

I took my 9 year old to her first musical today at the Kennedy Center. We saw &Juliet, she loved it. It‘s the story of what happened if Juliet survived (with Shakespeare‘s wife, Anne, rewriting the story). It was a great show, highly recommend. After we met a lot of the cast. They were kind enough to take photos & sign her poster. They were all so nice. It was a great introduction to the theater for her.

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Andrea313

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

Two weeks ago, I saw the new Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, so of course I had to revisit the source material beforehand! Like a million others, R&J was my introduction to Shakespeare. I don't love this play but I'm grateful for the teacher who made my 6th grade class read it. It made me a stronger, more confident reader in general and got me curious enough to seek out more of Shakespeare's work, enriching my whole life as a result. ❤️

Andrea313 #SeeMoreTheatre 3mo

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon‘d and some punished;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Exeunt omnes.
#RomeoAndJuliet #WilliamShakespeare #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookshelf #stack #Plays #Fiction #Classics #School #ReadForSchool #Literature #HighSchool #Poetry #Tragedy 💙💙💙

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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#moon
+16 points

And if you've never seen The Reduced Shakespeare Company perform ROMEO AND JULIET, you're in for a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk

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Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

#AboutABook #StunningCover @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Slowly supplementing the Oxford complete works from my college Shakespeare course with copies of the individual plays as I reread them, cause the complete works weighs like a bazillion pounds and is just not that much fun to read from… and I 💯 bought this one for the cover art and have zero regrets. I may get more of them in these Wordsworth Classics.

The_Book_Ninja I‘m mad envious of anyone who reads Shakespeare for fun. I‘ve seen two plays with my daughters (King Lear with Ian McKellen and Macbeth with James McAvoy — accidental Marvel Universe continuity) and been frustrated trying to keep up with the language. 6mo

Eggs Beautiful 🌹 6mo

IndoorDame @The_Book_Ninja I‘m pretty jealous of seeing Lear with Ian Mckellen! There are some really fantastic full cast audio recordings available that can sometimes be a fun way into the language since you get to hear it performed by the actors, but you can read along, or slow it down/rewind it when a scene frustrates you 6mo

The_Book_Ninja @IndoorDame My daughter recommends Baz Luhrmann‘s Romeo and Juliet with its modern visuals helping to clarify the dialogue. That‘s my next mission 6mo

IndoorDame @The_Book_Ninja love that version! Excellent plan! 6mo

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MariaW

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

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I finished reading the easy version of Romeo & Juliet with my 8th grade students. Even though the text was changed a lot they did not catch some parts of the the story. And I did not like the easy version because some of the best known quotes of this play have been changed. I prefer the original.

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MariaW

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

I am currently reading the abriged version of my favourite Shakespeare tragedy because we are going to visit the theatre soon. 💪💪💪💪

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

All of the Author Reindeer 📚
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#HumbleHarvest
#stars
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Star-crossed indeed. 😃

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

Eggs Perfect 🤩 1y

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Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

#DownForTheCount really had me thinking about these two star crossed lovers. #IdiomInsight @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

sherrisilvera Love the cover! 1y

Eggs Beautiful cover 💔 1y

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

Eggs Perfection 🥰 1y

dabbe @Eggs 🧡💜💛 1y

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Eggs

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

“The haste within the pursuit for love leads to death for many involved.”

#HasteMakesWaste

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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

BethM I yelled R&J at my toddler to interrupt a tantrum1 I highly recommend 😂 1y

Eggs @BethM 😂 1y

dabbe You got there first! All I could think of was this play for today's idiom.
“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.“ 🤩🤩🤩 1y

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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Eggs

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🖤 2y

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sun

I couldn't resist. 🤷‍♀️

TheSpineView No one can resist Shakespeare! 2y

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Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras | William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#steed

Here is the link to the funny version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUyq-uCZr0

The part I quoted starts at 2:20 into the youtube video. 🤩🤣🤩

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Love this show/video! Getting to play the last act after my high school students finally finished reading Hamlet almost makes up for the struggle to get them there. 2y

TheSpineView So good!!!🌞🤣😊 2y

dabbe @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards YES! And the coolest part is they watch it, laugh, but the GET IT! Sometimes I would show them the whole thing, and even though they might not have totally understood the others, they still laughed and enjoyed it. After playing it tons of time, you'd think I wouldn't still watch it. But I do. Every single time. 🤣🤩🤗 2y

dabbe @TheSpineView 🤩🤗😘 2y

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Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras | William Shakespeare

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
#RomeoAndJuliet #WilliamShakespeare #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #Classics #Romance #Plays #Fiction #Drama #Love #Historical #Adult #Relationships #Classic 🩶

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#star

I see the word “star“, I think of this play. Always.

E.Bolhafner I think it is interesting how star stands for fates, in Shakespeare negative fate, but in things like tarot or even general culture stars stand for good fortune or something positive/bright in the darkness... a blessing instead of a curse. 2y

dabbe @E.Bolhafner I totally agree. To even add to that, night and red can usually be symbols of danger and death but also of romance and love--or in R&J's case, both. The only times they're together in the play (except when marrying) is at night: “Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night ... Give me my Romeo.“ 2y

TheSpineView ❤️ Shakespeare! 2y

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dabbe @TheSpineView Always. 😍 2y

TheLudicReader Love this play. Just collected my grade 10 essays. :-) 2y

dabbe @TheLudicReader Oooh! What did they have to write on if I may be so bold as to ask? 😀 2y

TheLudicReader @dabbe topics included who/what was to blame for R&J‘s deaths, is the play about love or violence, were Romeo and Juliet really in love, how did Romeo subvert gender norms…fun times. Lol 2y

dabbe @TheLudicReader LOVE these topics! My pick (if I had to write said essay) would be about who/what was to blame. Was it those accursed stars from the get-go? Oh, I could write volumes! I bet you get some good stuff. 💙💚💙 2y

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Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

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It was my 3rd or 4th time reading this, and I find something new in it each time. There really is a reason the classics endure. I tried to do a read/listen combo, but really disliked the audio on the Folgers Shakespeare version I have, so abandoned that plan. I‘m planning to read Chloe Gong this month, so I‘m excited to see the connections.

OriginalCyn620 That‘s a beautiful edition! 2y

IndoorDame @OriginalCyn620 it‘s my first Wordsworth special edition, but definitely not my last! I just discovered that they have several collections with the most gorgeous artwork!!! 2y

5feet.of.fury 😍 2y

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Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

#ThemedThursday While there are countless terrible adaptations of this, and while I have seen some IRL scenes of ‘if I can‘t be with you I‘ll kill myself‘ play out (and very much wish I hadn‘t!) I love the original play and the first few movie adaptations I ever saw, and have been wanting to revisit them recently. I actually realized last week that I no longer own a copy of the play or any of the movies!!! So I‘m on a quest to fix that.

IndoorDame Thx for the tags @dabbe @RaeLovesToRead !

Want to play @Susanita @Gissy @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 2y

LitStephanie Oh, have fun! I still love both Zefferelli's and Luhrman's versions, for different reasons. 2y

IndoorDame @LitStephanie thank you!!! 2y

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Suet624 @LitStephanie I'm with you. 2y

dabbe Ooh, yeah! Thanks! 💜🤗💜 This is the 1st one that popped into my head, too! I have a pdf-file of the whole play, if you're interested.

Have you seen the RSC's version of R&J? It's hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk 2y

IndoorDame @dabbe ooh, I haven‘t. Thanks!!! 2y

dabbe @IndoorDame 🤗 2y

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

Went to see & Juliet tonight - what a talented young cast!

I was somewhat swayed by knowing that my early 00s crush - Millsy was in the cast (😍😍😍) - and while he was fantastic - he wasn‘t the best thing about the show.

Blasting millennial era pop songs & using Juliet not ending things with a dagger when she wakes up from her drugged sleep as a jumping off point - this honestly was just ridiculously fun - and the plot twists! Loved it!

janeycanuck Oh, I loved this, too! What they did with Shakespeare and Anne was so good!! 2y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @janeycanuck, yes! I love a bit of fourth wall breaking! The line about there never being another Anne Hathaway where they both side eyed the audience was 👌🏼. Excellent puns too - I especially enjoyed da bois band! (edited) 2y

DivineDiana Sounds fantastic! Adding to “must see” list! 2y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @DivineDiana, that‘s an excellent life choice ☺️ 2y

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Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras | William Shakespeare

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TheKidUpstairs This guy's got the best tweets 💗 2y

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GinaKButler

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

No shame in my No Fear Shakespeare game. 😂
Rereading Romeo and Juliet. ❤️

#bookspinbingo

MyNamesParadise I had to use No Fear Shakespeare whenever I was assigned Shakespeare in school. I just don‘t understand old English. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 2y

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

And now some FUN with ROMEO AND JULIET!

BTW, if you've never seen or heard of The Reduced Shakespeare Company, you are missing out! It's on the link below, 2nd from the 2nd column:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRDd1wABsJ3jr-3TH_aFyoWEQvo8Hq6n...

rwmg This reminds me of watching the Leo DiCaprio film with my Indonesian partner, who had sort of heard of Romeo and Juliet as a great romantic couple but didn't know the story. He was absolutely DEVASTATED by the ending. 2y

dabbe @rwmg Yeah, how many stories do we have where it ends like that? The students who had never read or seen it felt the same way. BTW, I LOVE the Leo version. Even though it's set in so-called modern times, the dialogue is EXACTLY what's in the play with nothing left out. Very dramatic, too! Well, it's a drama, right? 😀 2y

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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My 2nd-to-last least favorite Shakespearean play (JULIUS CAESAR is last, sorry Will). Teenagers with angst and haste. No wonder our freshmen loved it! I also called it the “IF ONLY“ play, as in: “If only they had talked to their parents or tried to“/“If only they had waited for Friar Laurence“ ... Of course it's Shakespeare w/ beautiful words (especially the balcony scene, but I much prefer his darker tragedies). Still, a good start for the frosh.

RamsFan1963 I never found Romeo and Juliet to be a great love story. If you told it today, it's two angst ridden teens who take things too far with tragic results. Like National Enquirer headlines. 2y

dabbe Boy, do I agree! I sometimes wish I had filmed my classes before retiring just to relieve ALL. THE. DRAMA. Some teenagers can make a lost pen be the most angst in their lives that day. I guess (at least) with R&J, the angst was over so-called love at first sight. 2y

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Texreader

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

#twofortuesday Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1) In 7th grade I decided to read Romeo and Juliet. Then I memorized the balcony scene. I‘ve quoted it ever since. When you‘ve memorized something so young and repeated it for so long, it‘s quite hard to forget in its entirety…”what‘s in a name…a rose by any other name would smell as sweet…” I was a weird child

2) Midnight would complain that I don‘t spend nearly enough time cuddling her or feeding her

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TheSpineView Never enough cuddles and I'm typing this as my cuddler just tried to get closer. Thanks for playing 2y

Texreader @TheSpineView I‘m on a business trip tonight so she‘s probably really pouting that I‘m not there for making biscuits. I‘m the fortunate family member on whom and only on whom she will make biscuits. I always have to get a double batch when I return. 2y

SamAnne I remember memorizing the Queen Mab speech. Sadly I can‘t quote it now, but I could for years. 2y

TheSpineView @Texreader ❤️🐈❤️ 2y

Texreader @SamAnne wow! Impressive! 2y

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AshleyHoss820

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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There‘s nothing I can add about the plot that we all don‘t know. I‘ll tell you this, if you want me to teach irony and inference to students, I can find other ways. The only good time we had reading this was when they acted out the final scene and we had “dead bodies” laying all over the classroom. 🤣 This is a good way to teach caution in relationships, though…I‘ll say that… #RoryGilmoreChallenge

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Kimberlone

Romeo & Juliet | William Shakespeare

#Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #DailyPhotoPrompt #Day17 #Poison

Oops, another week and more photos to catch up on! I‘m going to post last week‘s photos before I tally my final Week 3 numbers later today.

In Romeo & Juliet, the star-crossed lovers meet their end partly due to poison.

Clwojick

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suvata

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

#bookstagram #shakespeare #NotALoveStory 🤷‍♀️

kplovesbooks 💯 FACTS. 2y

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Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras | William Shakespeare

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