A set of star-cross’d lovers -Prologue

Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s 1st great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story which has long been among the author’s most popular plays for performer and audience as well. Romeo and Juliet is usually a simple but dramatic cautionary story about the blindness that both like and hate can engender. As performed by Claire Bloom and Albert Finney, this energetic production catches the fresh exuberance and poetic enthusiasm that characterize most of Shakespeare’s early function and makes Romeo and Juliet specifically the greatest romantic creation in British Literature.

This unabridged, full-cast recording is an excellent way to see and listen to Shakespeare out-loud.