Romeo and Juliet: Third SeriesThis major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play. The richly illustrated introduction looks at the play's exceptionally beautiful and complex language and focuses on the figure of Juliet as being at its centre. René Weis discusses the play's critical, stage and film history, including West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's seminal film Romeo + Juliet. This is an authoritative edition from a leading scholar, giving the reader a penetrating and wide-ranging insight into this ever popular play. |
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... There is the same rich exuberance of passion and sentiment in the one that there is of thought and sentiment in the other' (Hazlitt, 254). Whatever Romeo and Juliet may lack in philosophical range, its imaginative achievements are ...
... There is the same rich exuberance of passion and sentiment in the one that there is of thought and sentiment in the other' (Hazlitt, 254). Whatever Romeo and Juliet may lack in philosophical range, its imaginative achievements are ...
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... there festering in his shroud? 'The horrible conceit of death and night, / Together with the terror of the place' (37–8), as she puts it, would surely rob her of her reason. Her small knife will, she pledges, rescue her if all else ...
... there festering in his shroud? 'The horrible conceit of death and night, / Together with the terror of the place' (37–8), as she puts it, would surely rob her of her reason. Her small knife will, she pledges, rescue her if all else ...
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... there (84) and because there 1 Coppélia Kahn develops this further by reading Romeo's death in the Capulets' tomb as his ultimate submersion in Juliet's being, in defiance of patriarchal norms: 'Romeo's death in the tomb of the Capulets ...
... there (84) and because there 1 Coppélia Kahn develops this further by reading Romeo's death in the Capulets' tomb as his ultimate submersion in Juliet's being, in defiance of patriarchal norms: 'Romeo's death in the tomb of the Capulets ...
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