Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version) Paperback – January 25, 2012

I highly recommend this. This book is not 'perfect', I don't agree with all of the translations to modern English, however, it has been extremely helpful getting my teenage son both interested in and able to understand Romeo and Juliet. Each page has a modern English 'translation' shown side-by-side with the original text. It would be helpful to have this for all the Shakespeare plays.

My grandson home schools and without this book he would have failed Romeo and Juliet.It has the original words on one side of the book and a modern use of words on the opposite page.It made the language 100% understandable.Recommend for anyone who doesn’t get Shakespearean lingo ! Lol

Despite that the modern translation can no way match the beauty of the original writing of Shakespeare, and that a modern translation will have great difficulties in faithfully translating the original version, it does provide a good and convenient way for us to appreciate the masterpiece of Sharespeare. I would suggest to buy two versions: one is this version to provide a quick glance into the drama of Romeo and Juliet, and another version without modern translation, but with underlying notes to provide better insights/explanations on more difficult/complicated wordings of Shakespeare's writing.

La novela me llegó tal cual como en las imágenes, recomiendo comprarla.

This was required reading for my daughters English Honors class, and it really helped her understand the book. On each page there were two columns, one in Shakespeare's words, and the other column of the same page it was written in plain understandable English. I would recommend this to anyone (like me) who has a hard time understanding the language from that time period.

More cheap then the library

It's very hard for me to read old English, and I've always wanted to read this play. So I decided to suck it up and look for it on Amazon. Then when I saw this... Thank the Lord! Now I can easily read and enjoy this classsic.