Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare Stories #18

by Andrew Matthews (Adapter), Tony Ross (Illustrator), William Shakespeare

Over two million Shakespeare Shorts sold! Discover the world of Shakespeare with this collection of brilliant stories - perfect for readers of all ages.

When Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked ball it's love at first sight. But their families are sworn enemies, and the very next day a deadly brawl breaks out between the Montagues and Capulets. Young Romeo is caught up in the fighting and as punishment is banished from the city - and sent away from Juliet for ever...

A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Classics, Shakespeare, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Comics

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Andrew Matthews was born in South Glamorgan in 1948. Andrew taught English in Hampshire after which he became a full-time writer. He lives in Reading with his wife and their cats. Andrew's work has been widely translated and he has made numerous appearances at schools and libraries throughout the UK.


Source: United Agents.

Reviews

[Dream.M · Rating 5 out of 5]

خواهر کوچولوی قشنگم
امروز تولدته و این کتاب مورد علاقه‌اته از بین تمام نوشته‌های شکسپیر که اونهم نویسنده مورد علاقه‌اته از بین تمام اونهایی که می‌شناختی.
امروز کنارت نشستم و با صدای بلند برات خوندمش و بعد مثل همون روزا که باهم در موردش حرف میزدیم، از دست خانواده‌های کینه‌توز و شانس بدشون حرص خوردم .
امروز تولدته و درست چهل روزه که نیستی . ببخش که دل و دماغ نداشتیم برات کیک بپزیم و جشن بگیریم. اما به یادت بودیم . بدون مثل تمام چهل روز قبل و همه روزای لعنتی بعد ، هر لحظه توی قلب و مغزمی و با تمام وجودم ، با بزرگترین حسرت ها عمیقا آرزو میکنم کاش من جای تو رفته بودم.
این هدیه تولدته سی‌سی
چهارده سالگیت مبارک
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«‏وقتی کسی را از دست می‌دهی، دوبار خداحافظی می‌کنی: یک‌بار با او، و یک‌بار با خودت آن‌گونه که با او بودی.»

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

Graphic novel form of the famous play makes this easy to read and understand. I don't know if this is unabridged or not, but most of the play is here. I think the English is modernized too. The art is lovely and the characters are still timeless. Gareth says he used a diverse cast to show that this story is universal. I found it quick and easy to read and I think it would be great for youngsters who are curious about these stories.

I want to look at more of Gareth Hinds work. This was good and a great way to re-read this story. 14 year olds are so silly. Again, they die.

[Sara Kamjou · Rating 3 out of 5]

شکسپیر تو داستان رومئو و ژولیت حد اعلا و جنون‌آمیز دو هیجان عشق و نفرت رو به تصویر کشیده.
از اونجایی که از دید من عشق بدون شناخت و هیجانی یه جور جنون و هیجان خالصه، این داستان برای من چندان عاشقانه نبود، بلکه بیشتر جنون‌آمیز به نظر میومد.
با این حال اینکه نفرت بی‌پایه و اساس دو خانواده می‌تونه چه عواقبی داشته باشه می‌تونه در حکم یه تلنگر اثرگذار باشه.

[Jessi ❤️ H. Vojsk [if villain, why hot?] · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a nice way to let kids read classics, that would be really difficult in their original form.

[Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

*4.75

WHY?

I've read this graphic novel so many times. I picked it up just now to read with the play for my Shakespeare class. So tell me why, this time, it made me cry? Tell me why the penultimate page brought tears to my eyes!

I feel like I'm a little more worldly now on this play, so I won't say what I once said that this book is the singular best adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. But it's still really, really good. The added racial layer is another benefit.

I love all of the little additions that Hinds added - ultimately, this book really breathes life into the play's characters. You really feel for them.

4.75/5 stars, 0.25 taken off because some scenes just weren't perfectly done, but this book is fabulous. Definitely read the original play, because it's a classic, but this is an excellent add-on to it.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with my son, aged 7. I enjoy a bit of William Shakespeare every now and again, and everyone knows the story of Romeo and Juliet. This manages to break down what can be quite a complex story, into something palatable to a younger audience. It's broken up with pictures to accompany the text (something my son appreciated) and manages to engage the reader with words appropriate to the target audience. I would certainly look out for more titles in this series, as it's a great introduction to Shakespeare to my children.

[Grace Galinski · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book quite a while ago, I just forgot to add it on here and write a review. From what I remember, the book was pretty good. I found it confusing a couple times, but only due to some of the language used. But overall, I did like it quite a bit.

[Nancy Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked how the illustrator took liberties with using a diverse cast of characters. I'm not sure why, but it bothers me that Hinds used the word "universal" to express why he changed the race of the characters. Instead of Italians in Verona, the Capulets were Indian, and the Montagues were Black. Hinds was right, though. Their race changes pretty much did nothing to the plot. It made it easier to spot out a Capulet and a Montague, but that was about it.

Romeo was still infuriating as hell. Juliet was about the same (somehow I'm always only annoyed by Romeo in all these reincarnations). The nurse was an enabler. There was a whole lot of illiteracy, as usual. The priest was a very smart and wise man but is in the same way an enabler. Hinds pretty much kept everything intact.

I think the part I like the best is how true to the source material this graphic novel was. I'm not really fond of this particular play. It's not that the story is terrible. In fact, this particular tragedy has among the best and tightest storytelling out of all Shakespeare's stuff. Along with great storytelling, the characters are extremely compelling. I could only think of Macbeth and Hamlet, which are also popular tragedies. However, they don't have such a hold as R+J does. It's the characters that really stick with people. They're simple and yet so very complex. I just don't like how our society has romanticized this story so much to the point it loses its original meaning. Romeo is supposed to be this emo, annoying teenager who is WAY TOO RASH (I MEAN, JUST TAKE A SECOND TO THINK FOR ONCE, ROMEO. YOU EGG.). He's not supposed to be the ever enchanting Leo. The whole play is about the lack of knowledge (irony). If everyone in the play took a hot second to think critically, everything would be solved. Pretty much. Also, teach people how to read. That will help too.

Anyway, I liked how this play doesn't romanticize this story. It shows it as is, and Romeo is as annoying as ever. Highly recommend.

[chev ۫ ꣑ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, but interesting introduction to shakespeare's works, although I don't recommend this book for projects as it is the condensed version!
5/5 Chev's picks
Recommended for: people who are newly introduced to shakespeare's works.
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[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This text is a great accompaniment to the real thing. I really like that R+J are depicted as an interracial couple; this representation opens a lot of doors to discussion about stigma, racism, politics, and conflict. The slanted gutters emphasize the increasing chaos as the play progresses. And the visual characterizations really helped me to keep all of the men straight- especially Paris, Tybalt, Mercutio, Benvolio, etc. Overall, a great read!

[Petergiaquinta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Newly retired, I won't be teaching Romeo and Juliet this year for the first time in a very long time. In a typical year, the second week of January would be the time to introduce concepts like iambic pentameter and the difference between "thee" and "thou," read a couple of sonnets and then dive into the Prologue and Act 1, scene 1. We'd watch the first ten minutes of Zeffirelli and compare it against the opening scene by Baz Luhrman, and then it would be off to the races, spending the majority of the third quarter on Shakespeare's play. And although it would be a struggle, each and every time I would enjoy myself mightily, and I’d hope my students would as well.

I tried to count it up last spring after we finished that final couplet by Prince Escalus. Best as I could figure, I've taught Romeo and Juliet 96 times, give or take a few. And so I've read it well over 100 times, going back to my own ninth grade year at Southeast Junior High with good old Betty Ross, who was both the bane of my existence and one of the reasons why I went into teaching myself. And I've watched the Zeffirelli nearly the same number of times, although I don’t recall Ms. Ross showing us that; I think the first time for me was student teaching at New Trier. Each viewing is a wonder for me. It doesn't grow old.

But things are different now. Unlike the beauty of Shakespeare's language, Zeffirelli's film, and the two lovers themselves, I grow old, and I won't be teaching the play three times a year or watching the movies anymore. But last week in my temporary role as my school's Sub-Sub-Librarian, I came across Garth Hinds's graphic novel version sitting on our shelves and thought, why not? So while this year for the first time in three decades I won't be reading the full text of Shakespeare's play, at least I've read some of it here in Hinds' graphic novel version. And Hinds is pretty clever at trimming the play down and almost all of his text is directly from the play, so that's good, although I wish he would have kept more.

Hinds' graphic novels are serviceable, but ultimately (and obviously) they pale in comparison to the original classics. I have taught his version of The Odyssey, and it's okay. And I thought his version of The Iliad did a pretty decent job of capturing that epic poem even with its enormous cast of characters. But ironically, here Romeo and Juliet suffers in comparison, even though it is a much shorter, less complex work than Homer's two massive epics. And I think the reason for that is how Shakespeare's richness of character and the beauty of the language instead of coming to life through the illustrations are flattened to the overall detriment of the play. Hinds isn't much of an artist, truth be told, and his crappy graphics contribute to that flattening.

Many examples could be provided here, both with what he includes and what he leaves out, and he does make some rather odd artistic choices at times, but personally I really wish he would have spent a little more time on the Nurse and tried to capture the dynamics better between her and Juliet throughout the play. At the end of the book, he strangely includes a couple of pages where he describes his attempts to accurately convey the architecture and the geography of Verona, and that seems like a lot of misplaced energy when the characters themselves come across as wooden and two-dimensional, with so many other errors or inconsistencies. I wonder why a defense or explanation of one's choices of architecture or location even matters when the author gives us a shirtless Tybalt covered in tattoos or opens the play with an image of two contemporary style tombstones. Where are those golden statues, Mr. Hinds?

Ah well, the graphic novel won't substitute for the real thing, but I've done myself no damage by reading it. As Friar Laurence doing some early morning gardening reminds us, "For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give."

[Rakisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fear Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge
Break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes
Civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life….”

Blah, blah, blah, blahbly blah…thus is the opening to one of history’s most well-known tragedies that has spawned hundreds of years’ worth of tropes—Tony & Maria (West Side Story), Jack & Rose (Titanic), Buffy & Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). It’s a story line we know well. It’s a story line that everyone knows so well. So what makes Gareth Hinds version worth picking up and reading?

First off, it is a graphic novel. I didn’t realize how much easier it was to understand the anger, the humor, and all of the emotion in Shakespeare’s words until I could match it with still illustration. Sure, seeing a movie version or a play helps but actors move around. You don’t get to linger on their faces or the expressions. Gareth Hinds’ Rome & Juliet allows the reader to do that. And even with all that time given to linger, concentrate and re-read, the story didn’t lose the gut punch reaction. When Juliet stabbed herself…sheesh!

Secondly, Hinds tried very hard to keep to the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare’s dialogue intact. Now, I can hardly pronounce it and much less explain what it is. But if I understood correctly from Hinds’ foreword, reading the dialogue in this pattern helps the reader appreciate Shakespeare’s “genius.” I do have to agree that this iambic pentameter did make it easier to understand the bantering between characters.

Finally, Gareth Hinds painted this universal story with a multiracial cast. Although he claims it is not a statement about racism or racial conflict, I admit that it was fun to see Romeo rocking the baby dreadlocks—definitely more appealing to the diverse tween and teen patrons that attend my urban public library. So, if you want to recommend an accessible but accurate version of Romeo & Juliet, do recommend Romeo & Juliet adapted by Gareth Hinds.

[Narges Amooei · Rating 2 out of 5]

به‌خاطر کم حجم‌بودنش، از میون کتاب‌های باقی‌مونده از دوران نوجوونی و شایدم قبل‌تر، برداشتمش و خوندم.
اولاً که نمی‌بخشمت مترجم/ ویراستار/هرکی که مسئولش بودی به خاطر تمام دفعاتی که "بطری" رو با 'ت' دیدم (بتری) و می‌خواستم چشمامو از کاسه دربیارم.
دوماً هم که واقعاً عشق‌های آتشین شکل‌گرفته در یک نگاه رو درک نمی‌کنم. و این هم داستان عشق ساده نبود، داستان جنون بود. درکنارش داستان نفرت و این‌که چه خرابی‌هایی به بارمیاره.
و درآخر FOR GOD'S SAKE، بطری ِسّم، نه بتری:)))اه.

[Amina (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ) · Rating 4 out of 5]

The everlasting battle between love and hate.
A war between two families and the unfortunate fate of two lovers paying for their ancestors stupidity.
The power of love, hate and grief is at the center of one of the best tragedies.

[Melody Schwarting · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now that I've read one, I'm surprised that not all of Shakespeare's plays have been adapted into graphic novel form. Genius! Plays are not meant to be read, and filmed stage productions (my second-favorite medium after live productions) can be inconsistent in quality. Hinds, while cutting down the original text, preserves Shakespeare's words. For newbies, especially, having the lines broken up in graphic novel fashion, and in characters' speech bubbles, will be really helpful for experiencing Shakespeare for the first time.

That being said, I've never cared for Romeo and Juliet in any form except ballet and that's because it's ballet. This is a me problem and I will be picking up Hinds's King Lear and The Merchant of Venice and anything else he's done since. Yet, I don't love his art. He's great at facial expressions, but some of his stylistic choices didn't work for me. I love how he made the story multiracial. His Romeo is the only one I can think of (besides ballet versions) that I don't dislike from the get-go. Hinds's Romeo looks like a teenager. He could pass for 14 or 15. Hinds's Juliet, on the other hand, has gorgeous features but doesn't look 13 at all, which I don't dislike, but age factors into why she and Romeo are so impulsive at the end. Some choices, like Tybalt being tattooed and Juliet wearing a short dress (about 12" longer than the results of googling "sexy Juliet Halloween costume") were...weird. In his author's note, Hinds explains that such choices were meant to communicate youthful rebellion against the establishment. Makes sense. Yet, since he made the Capulets Indian Sikhs, there were plenty of visual details discordant with the 1600s Italian setting that made it hard to interpret those choices in the way Hinds intended. Juliet's parents weren't wearing standard 1600s Italian dress, either, especially in headwear, which is a fine choice, but next to Tybalt's body tats it was strange. Tybalt also spent a lot of time shirtless while wearing those poufy shorts and it was hard to take the fight scenes seriously with that, for me.

Hinds handled Shakespeare's language well, very occasionally substituting a contemporary word for one that's fallen out of use (only when it fits the meter). Other times, he provides a brief footnote, occasionally explaining enough so the reader can get a joke. I found this more helpful than a glossary, and minimal enough to respect the reader's ability to understand Shakespeare's language without letting it prevent more reluctant readers from closing the book.

Don't let my idiosyncratic dislike for the star-crossed lovers turn you off to Hinds's graphic adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He does a wonderful job interpreting the story for the modern eye while letting the original text shine. I look forward to his other Shakespeare adaptations, and hope that his stylistic choices will make more sense to me in the plays I like better.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This version of Romeo and Juliet is a great read for KS2 children and introduces them to one of the most famous plays ever written. The story contains all the main parts from the play, including two famous quotes as well as detailed illustrations.
My year 6 class read this version while on SBT 1 and really enjoyed it. We focused on the story for three weeks as it provided a lot of opportunity for many activities:
-We compared the language in the story and the play and the children were taught some basics of Shakespearean language.
-We compared the language/plot/setting/characters in the fight scene in this story to the play and to both of the films which really engaged all the pupils, especially the boys in the class.
-We worked on character analysis which involved hot seating and role play.
-We looked at the morals and themes of the story, focusing on love vs hate.
-We looked at Diary writing from the perspective of both Juliet and Romeo.
-We wrote a modern adaption of a scene from the story.
-We looked at the death scene of the 1996 version of the film and focused on the mise en scene.
The children in my class were level 5 and 6 and although they enjoyed the story I think the language was too simple for them, it would have been better if it had contained more of the original quotes as the children in my class were eager to read and interpret them. I think this version would best suit year 4 or low/mid ability year 5.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I would have liked this adaptation a lot better if Hinds had been able to settle on either a modern or period setting for his graphic novel. I do like how he made the story more diverse than in the original play, by casting the Montagues as black and the Capulets as Indian. That was, I think, the one nice touch he brought to his adaptation. From there, he went with an odd and unsettling mix of period accurate and modern details. Picture Tybalt shirtless, tattooed, and with a modern hairstyle, but wearing 16th century breeches. Picture Juliet wearing a dress that is, from the waist up, a plain but serviceable Renaissance gown, and a skirt that ends above the knee. It's weird and a little jarring, and I wish Hinds had either stayed strictly period of strictly modern. This probably bothers me a lot more than it will most people. But I'm sure that I'm far from the only one who will notice how infuriatingly inconsistent the art quality is. Some of the panels are very nice, even lovely, and some are rushed and look like Hinds couldn't be bothered with them.

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Hinds' lyrical Beowulf but in spite of its being an interestingly multicultural version, sort of just functional artistically, in comparison to his Beowulf. There is evidence of his having researched for his version, with some surprises, which I liked…. will work as a companion book in high schools, I think.

[Aida · Rating 5 out of 5]

End. 1401/2/31
5🥲

خدا لعنتت کنه خدا ازت نگذرههههههههه این چه کتابی بودددد
قلب منو شکستتتت پاره پاره کرد😭 ولی خب بود. یک عشق دیوانه‌وار از این عشق هایی که آخرش بدبختی هست و نفرت ها. درکل خیلی خوب نشون داد خیلی خوشم بود از این نشون دادن عشق و نفرت🥲
کوتا بود ولی کاملا داستان رو رسوند و قابل فهم بود واسه این دوران که همش مشغول امتحاناتم خیلی خوبه

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow! I was pleasantly surprised by this book I just picked it up at the library and expected it to be modernized. but it wasn't and I loved that!

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.
For forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

Unlike his graphic adaptations of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, Hinds' graphic adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is not as impressive. Hinds does a good job of embedding the words and actions of the play in a vibrant tapestry bursting with color, but he errs in abridging the play. As he notes in his afterword:

The text of this book is not the full text of the play. Although I have attempted to abridge it as sensitively and faithfully as possible, I am aware that I have edited arguably the greatest writer in the English language and that I have left "on the cutting-room floor," so to speak, many pages of incredibly exquisite material.

I have no issue with adapting the text to fit the graphic novel format--it's what all the stagings, films, and "re-tellings" do, after all. It can't be helped. But I was not happy to see the character of Juliet's nurse reduced to a mere handful of panels. Given that the character arc of the Nurse--from co-conspirator with Juliet in the initial stages to "betrayer" in recommending she forget Romeo when it is convenient--is devastating. The nurse and Juliet share so many moments in the play and almost all of them are "on the cutting room floor." Given Hinds does a good job with Friar Laurence, it's somewhat puzzling why he cuts the Nurse. The Friar and the Nurse are the surrogate parents of Romeo and Juliet, and their involvement in the plot is critical. Without the humor and pathos of the nurse, the play is somewhat reduced.

On the whole, however, it's a decent adaptation. While it cannot replace a close reading of the text or the spectacle of the entire play on a stage, Hinds' art and juxtaposition and bold decisions (a tattooed Tybalt? a sword fight where a crowbar is the deciding factor?) provide fresh insight to this old story. Worth a view, though limited in understanding the overall play.

Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

[Mom · Rating 4 out of 5]

We all know this story so it's not new but I did learn a few more details since I didn't pick them up from the two versions of film that I watched.

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite watching Wishbone regularly when I was in elementary school, and even owning several of the tie-in books, I had never seen one of these Classics featuring the literature-loving Jack Russell terrier until I started volunteering at my local library as an adult, at least a decade after the popular PBS Kids show came to an end. When I did read it, I was surprised; the formatting was different than the Adventures or Mysteries novels from the same franchise. This was actually the first one I read, but, I have no idea what the date was when I did so; that's why it's not recorded on here.

The author did a good job of putting Shakespeare's most famous play into kid-friendly terms. Even some brief excepts from the original play appear; I didn't know "wherefore" actually meant "why" until I read this. However, there's no escaping the source material, which I have never liked. I hate anything that promotes suicide, and any reference to the play brings back bad memories of studying it in high school, where our English teacher forced us to watch the trashy Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes version. The sex scenes in that flick were a terrible shock to my Lizzie McGuire sensibilities, and turned me off even more to the story; not that I was much of a fan anyway. Though good for what it was, my personal annoyance with the original play prevented this from being anywhere close to the best Wishbone book.

[Dolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful adaptation of arguably the Bard's most famous of his romantic tragedies.

The graphic novel format is very effective and helps convey the meaning of the dialogue which many a student has struggled through.

interesting quotes:

"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable!" (p. 49)

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." (p. 51)

"So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." (p. 58)

"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." (p. 63)

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." (p. 73)

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[Kara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This version is absolutely faithful to the text, while experimenting with a very different set of visuals.

In this version, the Montagues are from Africa and the Capulets are from India, both families now living in a Verona filled with a diverse cast hailing from all ends of the Earth, and the younger generation firmly rejecting the stuffiness of the older generation’s Elizabethan fashion.

The setting was beautiful and paired beautifully with the text, for example, at the beginning the introduction text rolls over a graveyard, reminding you right at the start this is a tragedy.

The characters themselves were drawn somewhat stilted, but high marks for the amount of research and thought that went into every single panel.

[Juliette Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Romeo and Juliet by Gareth Hinds is a graphic novel as a take on the original Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

As a Capulet Juliet could not interfere with a Montague. One night the Capulet family holds a party. A Montague named Romeo attends the party and both Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Through secret meetings Romeo and Juliet's love grows. Of course, there are differences in the family's relationship.

I liked this book a lot. Our of five, i only gave it a three because i wasn't quite able to understand how they talked. But, I do recommend this book to anybody who likes Shakespeare plays.

[Bill Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Romeo and Juliet by Gareth Hinds this book turn the famous opera into a Graphic novel it is talking about inａlong ago there is two noble
they become enemy of each other but the son and daughter named Romeo and Juliet fell in love
But young Romeo kill a guy in Juliet’s noble and Juliet is going to marry another man so she drink a kind of Potions and act like she is died but Romeo saw think she is dead and kill him self beside Juliet .and Juliet wake up and saw Romeo she suicide。it is a very sad story

[Scott Hayden · Rating 4 out of 5]

So glad Mrs. Becky has brought graphic novels of Shakespeare into the library. This edition maintains Shakespeare's language, but with almost no footnotes or explanations, makes the story and dialogue followable. Even my 6-year-old spent time gazing at the pictures. "Daddy, their fighting with swords and killing each other," she informed me matter-of-factly. The illustrations are not so graphic as to be disturbing.

[David]

This book is talk about one country, have red, bile, and perpur three little country, one day, the red country and blue country fits, and the blue country one boy love one for blue country girl, so it want be together, so them want the two country reconcile but the two country don’t agreat so the grip kill herself and the boy do the same.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the story was very well told. However, I wasn't impressed with the art. The layout was functional and clear, but uninspired. The illustrations remind me of the illustrations in my middle school life skills work book. That's not a good thing.