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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

59 reviews

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

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.

sarahweyand's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, and Death

yxz2495's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Murder

winter13's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

1.5

If they weren't so horny this book would be so short

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Gore

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

monjure's review against another edition

dark fast-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

1.0

I hate Shakespeare.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Suicide

jojo_'s review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Grief and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

whatbreeread's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

it took me a while (understatement) to get into this book because i quite frankly didn’t understand what i was reading and had to get reacquainted with old english (and the edition is have doesn’t have new english translations so that was a bit tedious)

but when i did get into i was having the time of my life. it was drama filled, action packed and emotional because it’s tragic af. and now that i read this i can now easier detect it’s impact on modern media even centuries later and that’s cool (and i finally understand what “wherefore art though romeo?” means so that’s cool too😭)

now would i d*e for love? absolutely not SAWRI. i though R&J was stupid for that😩. but also not? at least not romeo because if he didn’t unalive himself he would’ve d*ed anyway

all in all, the writing was beautiful and the story was great. all 5 stars were well deserved

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide