"Come and see, you who are negligent, / Montagues and Capulets, Monaldi and Filippeschi: / One lot already grieving, the other in fear. In “Divine Comedy,” the epic poem that took Dante more than 10 years to complete, he makes the following reference: The Montagues and the Capulets-the two families at the center of the family rivalry that makes Romeo and Juliet’s love an impossible predicament-were kicking around long before William Shakespeare got a hold of them. William Shakespeare wasn’t the first person to write about the Montagues and the Capulets. Make sure to pick up a paper copy of this famous story since paper’s recycling rate is 68% compared to 15% for e-waste. What is it about this 16th-century play that has had such a lasting impression on readers and audiences? Read on to find out more about William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. While George Cukor’s 1936 film, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 movie, and Baz Luhrmann’s modern (for 1996) adaptation are some of the best known big-screen interpretations of the rivalry between the Montagues and the Capulets, West Side Story is yet another take on the tale. There have been musical versions, opera renditions, and more than 100 film and TV versions of the play. William Shakespeare's tragic story of two star-crossed lovers has been adapted hundreds-if not thousands-of times over the years, and not always exactly in the Bard’s own words. Tags AC Accounts Alan Turing Ambrosius Holbein Archives Ben Jonson Bookbinding Bookplates Cambridge Cataloguing Chained Books Chapel Conservation Dadie Rylands Digital Library Digitisation E.M.It’s safe to say that there are few people on Earth who don’t know the story of Romeo and Juliet.Digitising Shakespeare’s First Folio at King’s College.But this is perhaps more a reflection on the times than on Thackeray himself.Īll these books, along with many other treasures, will be on display at King’s Library’s free Shakespeare exhibition as part of Open Cambridge on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th September, 10.30am – 4pm: While his library included the First, Second and Fourth Folios of Shakespeare’s plays – as well as later editions – it is interesting that this is the edition he decided to present to his daughter, who recorded the gift on the fly-leaf of all eight volumes: “Mary Ann Eliz.th Thackeray the gift of her father”. Thackeray’s obituarist writes that “In his discipline generally there was something of almost Roman firmness … Yet under the rigid manner lay the kindest sympathy”. Spot the difference: Mercutio’s “the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon” has been changed to “the hand of the dial is now upon the point of noon”.
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