Stage directions are instructions and direction to the actors, and not spoken lines.
Our article on Shakespeare & early modern English, or our Shakespeare dictionary, will help you to understand the language as you read through the original textĪnother thing to bear in mind as you read the Romeo and Juliet script are Shakespeare’s stage directions, which are italicised. The language used in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet full text is slightly different to today’s modern English, which is reflected in the text. This page contains links to the original Romeo and Juliet script by Shakespeare, split into Acts and Scenes. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.Students learn about him at school and at university. William Shakespeare lived over 450 years ago, but his name, plays and poetry are still known all over the world today. He truly changed the way we speak English! He also wrote poetry and invented new words like 'eyeball' and 'bedroom'. They were fun, scary, exciting and serious! Sad tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, funny comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream and important histories about kings like Henry V. Shakespeare wrote many different types of plays. Soon Shakespeare was rich enough to help build a new theatre, called ‘The Globe’. He also wrote plays which everyone, rich and poor, even royalty, paid to watch. Shakespeare moved to London, and became a rather famous actor there.
He went to school there and learned Latin and Greek. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Not for acting but because he was, and still is, one of the best known writers in the English language. One of these actors was William Shakespeare. They were as popular then as TV shows are now and some of the actors became just as famous. But 450 years ago, people could only watch stories acted in front of them on the streets or in theatres. Today we watch stories through TV, computers or on phones.
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