My only love, sprung from my only hate! Juliet, Act 1 scene 5

Welcome to the RSC’s new Romeo and Juliet Play Guide, a unique resource offering readers detailed insights to the process of theatre. Through extracts from rehearsal diaries and a series of interviews with directors, designers and actors, you can learn more about Peter Gill’s production of Romeo and Juliet [RSC 2004-5] and more about the play in general. The Guide also offers practical, entertaining ways for students, teachers and life-long learners to explore a 400-year old performance text.

Whether you’re interested in photographs of past productions, film versions of the play, the RSC rehearsal process, Shakespeare’s life and times, stage fighting or design issues, there’s something in this Play Guide for you. I hope you enjoy reading it.

Roz Symon
RSC Play Guide Writer and Editor

(All references are to the New Penguin edition edited by T.J.B. Spencer)

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