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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

30 reviews

abby25's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, and Death

kwichris's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

anastasia_raf's review

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

I read Romeo and Juliet because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about... 
I get the "hype" surrounding it, and I imagine it was original and singular in its era... But I barely enjoyed it.

 It had some pretty beautiful and lyrical writing in it, and yet so many problematic themes and sentences as well. But as the format I read mentioned, it's not an "unscathed" representation of his work; it has been polished, changed, misrepresented, misunderstood and even experimented with in the theatre.
So I guess, we really cannot know "what the poet was trying to say."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexism, Misogyny, Suicide, Grief, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The only reason this isn't 5 stars is some unchallenged content that can be largely attributed to societal views at time of publication. Everything else is just too good. The language can be hard to understand at times but the themes, imagery used, references to other parts of the text, characters, language (when you take time to understand it) and rlly good execution of a tragedy arc outshine that. I am so in love with this book omg.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent and Transphobia

sunkernplus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Romeo and Juliet has gone up on my list of Shakespeare plays I adore since I've read it in high school. From it being one of my least favorite plays (due to the version I read being much abridged for high school students, not really going into the nature of the threatened child-adult marriage between Juliet and Paris), to it being one of the most interesting plays I've read next to Death of a Salesman due to it's appearance of being a Shakespearean/Elizabethan comedy -- until the start of Act 3. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Murder, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Paris is clearly meant to be a pedophile, being around Juliet's father's age yet Juliet is being forced to marry him. Misogyny is inherent in this as well. Many characters get murdered in this play, especially from act 3 onward. The play ends with Romeo and Juliet both committing suicide, and Juliet has suicidal thoughts when she decides whether or not to drink the vial of poison Friar Lawrence gives her.

rosejoy's review

dark emotional lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

sveta's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Murder

skyegbooks's review

emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This was a must read for my GCSE. This is not a tale of love but of the inexperienced being obsessed with the idea of love. This book is more of a testament to the time than that of a romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Classism and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

debdeb123's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Grief, and Suicide

roadki77's review

dark hopeful lighthearted sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A notable classic, though like much of Shakespeare's work, incredibly long.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Misogyny and Emotional abuse