Romeo and JulietSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy. |
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William Shakespeare. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ROMEO AND JULIET With an introduction by Ned Halley MACMILLAN COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY This edition first published by Collector's Library 2010 Reissued by Title page.
William Shakespeare. Contents INTRODUCTION ROMEO AND JULIET 1 GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY vii 129 177 INTRODUCTION Find a quiet corner – a seat on a. Contents.
... Juliet as never before. The tempo of the play is extraordinary. In the 'two hours traffic of our stage' – reading the play will take no longer – all the events take place within a few days, unwinding in the classical tradition of the ...
... Juliet's inaugural performance is 1594–5, relatively early in Shakespeare's life as a dramatist, which had begun with the history play Henry VI four or five years earlier when the playwright was aged about thirty. Romeo and Juliet is ...
... Juliet and much else from the wider Shakespeare canon, and was festooned with sly jokes about this greatest period in English drama. Critic Ian Nathan in Empire magazine shrewdly summarised the film as 'a romcom with added smarts for ...