William Shakespeare 
Romeo and Juliet 
Staged: the origins of YA s greatest tropes

With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees. After a chance meeting at a ball, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall desperately in love. But their families are locked in a bitter rivalry, their love forbidden. Worse still, Juliet s family already expect her to marry her suitor, Count Paris.Determined to save their love, Romeo and Juliet wed in secret. But when a fight erupts that leaves Montagues and Capulets dead, Romeo is banished from Verona, forcing Juliet to take desperate measures that spell tragedy for the star-crossed lovers.Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare s masterclass in tales of love and loss, and the origin of the lovestruck, star-crossed lovers.Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare s unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It With a foreword by Talia Hibbert Hamlet With a foreword by Faridah b k – y m d Macbeth With a foreword by Kat Delacorte A Midsummer Night s Dream With a foreword by Becky Albertalli Much Ado About Nothing With a foreword by Holly Bourne