Every Romeo and Juliet adaptation, in one list
All 31 of them, spanning 1936 to 2024: editions of the play, straight film versions, musicals, a ballet, an opera, an anime, manga, a novel, and recordings. Grouped by how you’d take each one in, oldest to newest inside each group. Every entry has its own guide.
Read
The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio1996
The play as the 1623 collected edition printed it, photographed page by page.
No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet2003
Every line twice: Shakespeare’s on one side, plain English on the other.
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet2007
The feud between two yakuza families in modern Tokyo.
Oxford School Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet2008
The complete play, packed for an essay.
The Folger Shakespeare Library edition2011
The play on the right-hand page, help on the left.
The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, ed. René Weis2012
The play, and every argument about the play.
Cambridge School Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet2014
The edition that expects you to stand up and say the lines.
Manga Classics: Romeo and Juliet2020
Every line of the play, drawn as manga.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong2020
Rival gangs in 1926 Shanghai, and a madness spreading through the city.
Watch
Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936)1936
The 1936 film, with Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard as the lovers.
West Side Story1961
The feud as two gangs on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, set to Bernstein and Sondheim.
Romeo and Juliet — The Royal Ballet, filmed by Paul Czinner1966
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet, on film.
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968)1968
Verona in period, with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as the lovers.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet1996
Shakespeare’s lines, in a modern city called Verona Beach.
Tromeo and Juliet1996
Troma’s version: raunchy, violent, and set in Manhattan’s underground.
Shakespeare in Love1998
A young Shakespeare falls in love while writing the play.
Romeo Must Die2000
Jet Li and Aaliyah, between two crime families.
Romeo × Juliet (2007 anime)2007
A floating city called Neo Verona, and a Juliet in disguise.
Letters to Juliet2010
An American in Italy finds an unanswered letter written to Juliet.
Gnomeo & Juliet2011
The feud as garden gnomes, for anyone old enough to sit through a film.
Romeo & Juliet (Carlo Carlei, 2013)2013
A period Verona, Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth, and a trimmed text.
Warm Bodies2013
A zombie called R falls for a living girl called Julie.
Still Star-Crossed2017
What happens in Verona after the lovers are dead.
Romeo and Juliet — The Royal Ballet2019
Prokofiev’s ballet in Kenneth MacMillan’s production, and not a word spoken.
Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre film, 2021)2021
Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley, filmed in the backstage spaces of the National Theatre.
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)2021
The same musical, filmed again sixty years later by Steven Spielberg.
Rosaline2022
The play from the point of view of the girl Romeo dumped.
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette — The Metropolitan Opera2024
The play as French Romantic opera, with Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim.
Listen
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet — The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (Decca)1973
The complete ballet score, with no stage and no words.
The Arkangel Shakespeare recording2014
The play read by a cast, with Joseph Fiennes as Romeo.
& Juliet — Original Broadway Cast Recording2022
What if Juliet got a second chance at life after Romeo? A musical to Max Martin’s songs.
If you want the play itself
Which edition should you read? puts the Folger, No Fear, the Arden and the rest side by side. Every one is the complete play; they differ in how much help comes with it.
There is no video game on this list. None could be found that is a version of this play rather than a borrowing of its title.