a free resource for students, Teachers, and shakespeare lovers

Love, betrayal, passion, bloodshed, and death. What happens when two young people from warring families fall in love? The Montagues and the Capulets have been enemies for generations, but when their children Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, tragedy ensues. This 6-episode series brings Shakespeare’s story to life as a radio drama performed by members of the Great River Shakespeare Festival. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

The script below (click on the image) will allow you to follow along in the text and see what we have chosen to cut from a modern script. The modern script is the work of scholars who combined text from multiple sources from the time of Shakespeare. This version relies most heavily on the Second Quarto of 1599 and the First Folio of 1623.