Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: full cast

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Folger Shakespeare Library, The World's Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a tragic world in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. This play, set in an extraordinary world, has become the quintessential story of young love. This new full-cast recording - based on the most respected edition of Shakespeare's classic - expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener.

Public Domain (P)2014 Simon & Schuster

"Nothing like the sun"

This timeless story of teen romance and warring families was wonderfully dramatized. Universally considered one of the greatest stories but the actors brought this story of death to life with the prosody, rate, tones, inflections, pauses and the sound effects. The sound characteristics helped to translate the middle English spoken in Shakespearean times understandable in modern times. To help augment my understanding, I did occasionally go to Sparknotes to understand some meanings or references.

Fabulous!

I use this in my 9th grade English classroom and it's a hit year after year. Great recording!

Highly recommend

I needed a push to reread Romeo and Juliet and this performance did it for me. Enjoyed it very much and couldn’t stop listening.

Great performance

Acting and sound effects and in listener enjoyment of an already well-written play. Five stars!

Romeo & Juliet, What Love, What Woe…

Very well done! Sadly finished too soon. Good production and good dramatic voices. Yes make it your next listen.

nothing less to be expected from Shakespeare

Quite the lovely story, the template for romance. Such a mark on history that to be someones's "Romeo" or "Juliet" is to be their true love, to death.

Phenomenal

What a wonderful read/listen. My 9th grade son has to read and this rendition brught this to life.

a classic alive

I really liked this performance of the classic romance. I hadn't heard it in a long time and I'm glad i returned to it. The full cast really helps comprehension too, for many of the outdated words and references are elucidated by context and intonation.

A story of dumbasses being dumbasses

A story of dumbasses being dumbasses and dying of dumbassary. 10/10 best play ever. word

Beautifully written

Full of great performances mostly. At times you can tell that some of the actors don't fully grasp exactly what they're saying but it is very infrequent.
The nurse is one of my favorite actors in this for her portrayal.
The short scene of the cooks in the kitchen is one of my favorites as well as Capulet telling off Tybalt.
Some parts of Romeo's dialogue (and others) are a bit dramatic or presented as if on stage which might help convey a lot of meaning for most of what is being said but conceals a small portion what's being said. The dramatic stressing can, at times, subtly affect the meaning and I'd recommend several listenings to pick up on this.