What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. But when Romeo is sent away from Verona, and arrangements are made for Juliet to marry Paris, a friend of her father's, hope begins to die. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Romeo and Juliet
Winner of 3 Emmy Awards these exceptional animated stories have been designed to introduce children and young adults to some Shakespeare's most popular works. Each play has been animated in it own unique style by the exceptional talents of the leading directors of Russia's Christmas Films. Actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars of stage and screen, including Antony Sher, Joss Ackland and Jenny Agutter, provide voices for the characters which were recorded and produced by BBC Wales. Animation type: Cel animation
These delightful adaptations by John and Leela Hort, shortened and in modern English, are an excellent way of introducing young people to Shakespeare - they are readable, they bring out the humour of the originals, and they are surprisingly true to the feeling of Shakespeare's plays. They are much appreciated by older people too, many of whom were put off Shakespeare at school.
Shakespeare has delivered a tale of tragic romance here. This tale unfolds in Verona, Italy, where two feuding families the Montagues and the Capulets just can't live together in harmony. Romeo, a Montague and Juliet, a Capulet are the star-crossed lovers who rise above the petty day-to-day feuding and proclaim their love for each other. Make sure you have a box of Kleenex close by. The ending is not pretty.
