Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two young "star-cross'd lovers" from rival families.
Bibliographic notesAs 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.
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Shakespeare in Quarto (may be down until sometime in 2025, as British Library recovers from cyberattack), 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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- 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)
- Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- 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
- The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (from the First Folio, 1623), by William Shakespeare
- The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (fifth quarto, 1637), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- Romeo and Juliet (with alterations, and an additional scene; 1753), by William Shakespeare and David Garrick (page images here at Penn)
- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy (1814 adaptation), by William Shakespeare, David Garrick, and John Philip Kemble (page images here at Penn)
These are arranged by language, and then approximately by date of first publication.
- Romeo ja Julia (in Finnish), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Paavo Emil Cajander (Gutenberg text)
- Romeo und Juliette (in German), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Christoph Martin Wieland (Gutenberg text). First published around 1766.
- Romeo und Julia (in German), by William Shakespeare, trans. by August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Gutenberg text). First published around 1797.
- Romeo and Juliet (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Romeo and Juliet (based on the 1887 Victoria edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
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