The American School of the Air
Romeo and Juliet
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The American School of the Air brought educational radio programs to listeners through lessons and dramatic presentations drawn from subjects such as literature, history, and the arts. This recording presents Romeo and Juliet, offering a radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy about two young lovers caught in the feud between their families.
Rather than a classroom lecture, the program uses spoken performance to make the play’s characters and conflicts accessible by ear. Shakespeare’s language, the lovers’ secret courtship, and the mounting consequences of the family rivalry give the story its dramatic shape.
The result is a literary broadcast suited to attentive listening: a chance to encounter a classic play through radio performance, with its emotional turns carried by voices and dialogue.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.