Synopsis
Romeo and Juliet - First Folio
Published by Nick Hern Books
This brand new edition accurately reproduces the Folio letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type
At a stroke, the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers
With no editorial interference - but also with no quaint typographical quirks - Shakespeareans everywhere, students, actors, directors, can see for themselves what the Folio really says
Did Shakespeare put a stage direction here?
Go to the Folio
Is that speech really as Shakespeare wrote it?
Look at the Folio!
As a further aid to understanding, on each opposite page, the same text appears but this time in a fully modernised version which could stand on its own as an authoritative edition of the text