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Dame Edith Evans reads the poetry of Lord Byron, William Blake, and William Shakespeare amongst many others.

Celebrated actress Dame Edith Evans selects and reads a collection of Shakespeare's greatest sonnets.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations.