The advantages
First of all, reading book can make you be more imaginative.You can image the character, moreover, you can feel the plot of the story by yourself. You can understand the story as your way.
By reading, you won’t lose any detail of the play
It also improve the concentration and the memory.
Reading can make your mind relax after hard working.
About Romeo and Juliet, it’s a play written in 1500’s. Shakespeare uses many difficult words and vocabulary in this play. By reading this, it helps us learn these new words, and it develops our brain to stretch on what we know. it also helps us broaden our understanding of the language in 1500's in England.
The disadvantages
Reading book wastes more time than watching a movie. If you are a busy man, watching movie is a better idea.
More one bad thing are that you can't understand some word in the play because it's written in a different style of English, and that it is fictional, it has never happened.
WATCHING MOVIE
The advantages
You can save time when you watch movie. And some strange words in the play will be simplified. You can easily understand it.
The disadvantages
When we watch movie, see the actor and the actress, we have to accept that the appearance of the character in the story. Our imagination can’t be broaden.
Some details will be cut. The director can change some detail for his screenplay. The movie has a limited time so it can not show all the detail in the book.
In movie, some detail can be different from the book.
For example, the nurse in the book are very close with Juliet. She takes care of Juliet as well as a mom. the Nurse was always there to support her, especially when Lady Capulet wasn't. But in movie, the Nurse is just like a babysister. She ‘s not as kind as the woman in book.