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Two perennial classics–William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the Broadway musical West Side Story–in a single volume!
The tragedy of affection thwarted by fate has at all times intrigued writers. Within the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the most world’s great plays: Romeo And Juliet. In our own time, Shakespeare’s drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play West Side Story. Despite the fact that any such works is ready a number of the nobility of Verona, and the opposite among immigrant families of New York’s West Side, both tell the tale of the plight of young star-crossed lovers.