Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & Juliet

Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & JulietFall in love with Shakespeare’s timeless story of love, vengeance and tragedy - Romeo & Juliet - in full multi-media magnificence.

Featuring the voice talents of Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen, along with nearly three hours of engaging animation and unabridged text, Shakespeare In Bits Romeo & Juliet promises to engage the mind and render the hearts of all who view, read and listen to it.

The ultimate study guide, this is everything you will ever need to learn, teach and appreciate one of the most enduring plays of all time.

Experience Shakespeare in all his glory

Completely unabridged

Understand and appreciate the linguistic richness of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet with the original play text, broken into easily digested ‘bits’. In-line translation helps to understand difficult words and phrases within the context of the original play text.

Hear it, See it, Read it

Nearly three hours of high-resolution animation with professional audio soundtrack helps you to decode and comprehend Shakespeare’s fertile prose quickly and efficiently. The text, presented side-by-side with animated action, is easy to follow with portions of text being highlighted as they are being spoken in the play. The integrated combination of text, audio and graphics is designed to facilitate learners of varying abilities and learning styles.

Character Building

Biographies for each cast character can be accessed from the main play or through a dedicated Cast feature. An illustrated character relationship map demonstrates key characters and their inter-relationships in the play.

Ace that Exam

Each Shakespeare In Bits title provides a wide selection of integrated analyses and study notes for each scene to help you understand plot summaries, key themes, language, imagery and quotes from the play. An easy-to-navigate visual scene selection menu is also provided to help you to quickly get familiar with the play’s sequence of events or to jump to your scene of choice.

Product Features:

- The unabridged original play text, broken into easily digested ‘bits’

- Complete notes, summaries, and analyses for each section

- A unique in-line translation system for obscure words and phrases

- Nearly three hours of animation, featuring the voices of Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen. (Audio provided by Naxos Audiobooks)

- Biographies for each character, accessed from the main play or through the cast browser

- A character relationship map, demonstrating key relationships in the play.

- A side-by-side main play view that presents the animations and the text at the same time

- High-resolution animations

- A text highlight feature, that highlights the current line of text being spoken in the animation

- Text highlight while seeking through an animation video, which allows you to easily navigate to a particular line in an animation

- Simple tab-bar navigation through all of the features in the play.