william shakespeare the tragedy of romeo and juliet

Before he meets Juliet, Romeos primary interest is a girl named Rosaline. This copy is now at the John Rylands Libraryin Manchester. Romeo and Juliet is not only a love story. Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 159496 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597.

Steevens (1736–1800) himself was ‘notorious for having “illustrated a copy of his own edition of Shakespeare, published in 1793, with 1,500 portraits of all the persons mentioned in the notes and text of which he could make drawings, or procure engravings”’ (Lucy Peltz, Facing the Text: extra-illustration, print culture, and society in Britain 1769–1840, Huntington Library, 2017, p. George Steevens’ edition was much reprinted. ‘The regular paper issue measures approximately 21 cm’ (Folger catalogue). Take a look at the soliloquies in Romeo and Juliet and how they reveal the characters motives. Death, life, love, hatred, obligation, and destiny all play a hand in the plays famous ending. , iv, 123, paper watermarked ‘1802’ some offsetting and light spotting. The literary themes throughout Romeo and Juliet have made the story an enduring tragedy for generations of audiences. Apart from the early Titus Andronicus, the only other play that Shakespeare wrote prior to 1599 that is classified as a tragedy is Romeo and Juliet (c. Single play extracted from the Wynne & Scholey/Wallis edition of the Complete Works in 10 volumes published between 1803–1805.Įxtra-illustrated with 14 engravings/etchings, variously by Grignion (3), Ridley (4), Hopwood, Platt, Blake (after Fuseli), Walker, Reading, Loutherbourg, and Sherwin.Įarly nineteenth-century diced russia decorated in gilt and blind, rebacked, corners a little worn engraved armorial bookplate of Frederick Arthur Hawker (pasted over an earlier plate, ‘George …’).

William shakespeare the tragedy of romeo and juliet