Romeo and Juliet Audiobook (Free)

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the profession of playwright William Shakespeare on the subject of two young ‘star-cross’d fans’ whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Browse by an all star cast including Albert Finney and Claire Bloom this audio documenting is a fantastic piece of literature to ass to your collection.

The tragic feud between ‘Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona’, the Montagues and Capulets, which eventually kills both about Romeo and Juliet young ‘star-crossed lovers’ and their ‘death-marked love’ creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with problems of intergenerational and familial conflict, aswell as the energy of language and the convincing romantic relationship between sex and loss of life, all of which makes it a remarkably modern play. It is also an early exemplory case of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic actions, as he moves from Romeo’s lyrical account of Juliet-‘she doth train the torches to burn off bright!’ towards the bustle and actions of a 16th-century household (the play containsmore scenes of ordinary working people than some of Shakespeare’s other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the 3rd work, the play proceeds such as a classic passionate comedy. The turning stage comes with the death of 1 of 1 Shakespeare’s finest early dramatic masterpieces – Romeo’s sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio whose “plague o’both your homes” starts the play’s descent into tragedy. “For hardly ever was a tale of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”.