Romeo, heir of the lordly Montague family of the Italian city of Verona, attends a masked dance held by the Capulets, their bitter rivals in the city. There, Romeo falls in love with Juliet Capulet. Secretly married by the obliging Friar Lawrence, the couple have only their love with which to confront the violence of the ancient warring factions.

This BBC production of Shakespeare’s study of fate and the power and contrary nature of love features an all-star cast with Sir John Gielgud as the Chorus and a young Alan Rickman as Tybalt. It has been acclaimed as one of the most faithful and distinctive versions ever to have been filmed.

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• Director: Alvin Rakoff
• Produced: Cedric Messina
• Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play

A marvellously staged adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic story of tender but tragically doomed young love . . . . . On its first appearance in print, in 1597, Romeo and Juliet was described as ‘An excellent conceited tragedy’ that had ‘been often (with great applause) played publicly’; its popularity is witnessed by the fact that this is a pirated version, put together from actors’ memories as a way of cashing in on its success. A second printing, two years later, offered a greatly superior text apparently printed from Shakespeare’s working papers. Probably he wrote it in 1594 or 1595.

The story was already well known, in Italian, French and English. Shakespeare owes most to Arthur Brooke’s long poem The Tragical History of ‘Romeus and Juliet’ (1562), which had already supplied hints for The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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