Romeo and Juliet Author:Shakespeare THE SIGNET CLASSIC SHAKESPEARE SERIES — The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited by outstanding scholars. — Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Joseph Bryant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Class... more »ic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. A note on the source of Romeo and Juliet. Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.B. Charlton, John Russell Brown. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textual note. Extensive bibliography.« less