Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts. Research Professor of English. University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young lo\e. Defying the feud which dix'ides their families. Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; hut a combination of old animosities and new coincidences o brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden t'iolence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.