In the city of Verona, two young lovers from rival families—Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet—defy tradition and fate in their pursuit of love. Their passionate romance unfolds amid hatred and misunderstanding, leading to tragic consequences. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet remains one of the most powerful and enduring stories of love, conflict, and destiny in world literature.
Date: 1597 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~144 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~40.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Romance, Drama & Plays
"The most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature" — Harold Bloom, influential American literary critic
"Shakespeare's young lovers... touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic" — HarperCollins Classics edition description
"This play is one of the most pleasing of our author's performances" — Samuel Johnson, influential English critic and lexicographer
"Romeo and Juliet is unmatched, in Shakespeare and in the world's literature, as a vision of an uncompromising mutual love that perishes of its own idealism and intensity" — Harry Levin, distinguished American literary critic and scholar
"Romeo and Juliet is the only tragedy which Shakespeare has written entirely on a love-story... There is the buoyant spirit of youth in every line" — William Hazlitt, renowned English essayist and literary critic
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