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Romeo and Juliet: a celebration of love, passion expressed in its most poetic form, the tragic fate of two very young lovers, caused by the antagonism of their aristocratic families, but also - in Peter Ustinov´s famous words - ´a comedy that has gone wrong´, crowded with tension and suspense, which has fascinated millions of readers, theatre- and cinema-goers over more than four centuries and which never fails to attract students in classrooms and universities of the twenty-first century.

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Romeo and Juliet: a celebration of love, passion expressed in its most poetic form, the tragic fate of two very young lovers, caused by the antagonism of their aristocratic families, but also - in Peter Ustinov´s famous words - ´a comedy that has gone wrong´, crowded with tension and suspense, which has fascinated millions of readers, theatre- and cinema-goers over more than four centuries and which never fails to attract students in classrooms and universities of the twenty-first century.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) gilt als einer der größten Dichter und Dramatiker der Weltgeschichte. Er verfasste zahlreiche Dramen, Tragödien, Komödien und Gedichte, mit denen er schon zu Lebzeiten Anerkennung und Wohlstand errang. Aber erst in den folgenden Jahrhunderten wurde er zum Prototypen des literarischen Genies, ohne den die Entwicklung der neueren Literatur von Goethe über Brecht bis in die Gegenwart hinein undenkbar ist.

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