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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet endures not only because of the love at its centre, but because of its fragility. Young love flares within a world too proud, divided, and unforgiving to make room for it. That is why the play still feels so immediate: it reminds us how easily something pure can meet barriers built by others. A work that holds both the beauty of first enchantment and the sorrow of knowing that love, however sincere, cannot always change the world around it.

Part of Passion, Fate and the Price of Desire, Love Against the World

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About this edition
Author
William Shakespeare
Language
Czech
Edition type
Public domain
Publisher / imprint
ARTales
Source
Project Gutenberg
Reference
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1112
Publication status
Published

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor who transformed the stage into a living mirror of ambition, love, jealousy, wit, power, and despair. In Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he created characters of such psychological depth and verbal brilliance that they still feel startlingly alive. His work includes dozens of plays, sonnets, and other poems, ranging from tragedies and comedies to histories and late romances. Yet despite becoming the most famous name in world drama, Shakespeare left behind surprisingly few traces of his private self. Perhaps that mystery is part of his power: the man recedes into shadow, while his kings, fools, lovers, and murderers keep speaking under the lights.

About the collection

Passion, Fate and the Price of Desire

Stories of powerful emotion, obsession, revenge, love, pride, ambition, and decisions that cannot be undone. This collection belongs to books in which desire is not merely a feeling, but a force capable of transforming an entire life.