Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two young "star-cross'd lovers" from rival families.

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Bibliographic Notes

As with Shakespeare's other plays, there is no "original" manuscript or author-supervised publication of Romeo and Juliet. Five quarto editions were published by others between 1597 and 1637, and the play was also included in the First Folio of 1623, published seven years after Shakespeare's death. Texts from these and other sources were used to create subsequent editions of the play.

Online Editions and Versions

Student editions

• Romeo and Juliet (with annotations, scene index, and Brooke's Romeus and Juliet), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller, contrib. by Arthur Brooke (HTML at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• The Annotated Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, ed. by Michael J. Cummings and W. J. Craig (HTML at shakespearestudyguide.com)

Early source editions

• The Most Excellent Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (first quarto, 1597), by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
• Romeo and Juliet (second quarto, 1599), by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
• The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (from the First Folio, 1623), by William Shakespeare
  • frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn
  • Gutenberg text
• The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (fifth quarto, 1637), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)

Historic staged versions

• Romeo and Juliet (with alterations, and an additional scene; 1753), by William Shakespeare and David Garrick (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy (1814 adaptation), by William Shakespeare, David Garrick, and J. P. Kemble (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)

Other editions and versions

• Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (HTML at MIT)
• Romeo and Juliet (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)

Related Titles

• Shakespeare in Quarto, by William Shakespeare (page images at the British Library). Includes several source editions of Romeo and Juliet that can be compared side by side.

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