7.98k reviews for:

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

3.5 AVERAGE

istxr's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leahgardenn's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

elisabarattoni's review against another edition

3.0

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A good old classic.

oliviac3's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jjac13's review against another edition

2.5

Loveable characters: No

pandora_snead's review against another edition

3.25

emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

melodia6's review against another edition

3.5

fast-paced

hanamontana's review against another edition

4.0

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pretty good, a little confusing, definitely brought my grade down

annaianna's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny tense fast-paced

fiig5412's review against another edition

2.0

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The book is fine. It’s a classic. It’s important to know it to see the through lines to today’s modern lexicons. The lines are great and memorable, it’s Shakespeare. But what knocks it down for me is that it’s a tragedy and I don’t like any of these characters. So when tragedy strikes, I just don’t care. Also why is this the standard high school freshman book? There are way better books that can teach tragedy or playwriting or modern lexicon or literally anything else good you might glean from this book. High school freshman? Why? Do better.