Friar Laurence, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and the star-crossed young lovers come to life in this multimedia edition of the play that has become an icon of forbidden love. On this CD-ROM, scholars Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre and Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute analyze and interpret the characters’ actions and motives. Features include a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronized with dramatizations of key scenes and speeches; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their roles; literary criticism of the text; scholarly essays featuring modern perspectives on Romeo and Juliet (Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, structuralist); a biography of Shakespeare; excerpts from A. C. Bradley’s definitive lecture series, Shakespearean Tragedy; a facsimile of the First Folio edition of the text; a clickable word glossary with accurate modern definitions of words no longer in common use; a bibliography of critical works; a history of Romeo and Juliet in performance; and Internet links to Web sites devoted to Shakespearean scholarship. The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.