This additional edition of the Signature Shakespeare Series is a lovely repackaging of the most famous love story ever told (Sterling Signature, $30, 396 pp.). Included here is the history behind Shakespeare and his play, a list of parts in the play, and paper-cut renderings of characters and settings in "Romeo and Juliet." Take time to peruse the notes opposite the play's text, which, like those in "Macbeth," translate Elizabethan speech and add in additional historical context to the lines. (Juliet's "I take thee at thy word" means she both agrees with what Romeo said and will marry him.)
