Romeo and Juliet

 I am happy and pleased to see that this book lives up to expectations. Wait, did I have expactations about it? Perhaps what I wanted to say is that, in my opinion, this is a book that deserves the reputation that precedes it. The book I read (The Oxford Shakespeare) contains the first and second quartos. Only The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet comes with extensive commentary, which I really appreciated. It made me enjoy the play so much more. It did take me several months to finish reading it, but I admit that I tended to procrastinate and that greatly increased the time it took me to read it. Whereas, once I got to the first quarto (which comes second,) I finished reading it in only three days. I definitely noticed certain differences between the second and first quartos, and I want to say that I did enjoy the second quarto much better. Not only because I was guided by the editor to the meaning of virtually all the lines in the play. I also, genuinely, noticed how some parts of the dialogue in the first quarto were shorter, and consequently, just a little less elegant than in the second quarto.
  Well deseved praise to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was so much more than I imagined. I highly recommend it.