Romeo and Juliet
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3 Months Free
Romeo and Juliet
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Narrated by:
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Claire Bloom
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Albert Finney
A pair of star-cross'd lovers -Prologue
Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed by Claire Bloom and Albert Finney, this lively production captures the youthful exuberance and poetic passion that characterize all of Shakespeare's early work and makes Romeo and Juliet in particular the greatest romantic creation in English Literature.
This unabridged, full-cast recording is a wonderful way to experience and listen to Shakespeare out-loud.
Claire Bloom does have her moments as Juliet- indeed she does the more hysterical passages very well. But the Romeo seems to believe that he is playing Hamlet- and he sounds much too old to boot.
In short this is a good 'reference', but better unabridged versions are available- Naxos, for instance.
Outdated and rather precious
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