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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... NIGHT'S DREAm muCH ADo ABouT NoTHING oTHEllo PERIClES SHAKESPEARE'S PoEmS RomEo AND JulIET SHAKESPEARE'S SoNNETS SIR THomAS moRE THE TAmING of THE SHREW THE TEmPEST TImoN of ATHENS TITuS ANDRoNICuS TRoIluS AND CRESSIDA TWElfTH NIGHT THE ...
... NIGHT'S DREAm muCH ADo ABouT NoTHING oTHEllo PERIClES SHAKESPEARE'S PoEmS RomEo AND JulIET SHAKESPEARE'S SoNNETS SIR THomAS moRE THE TAmING of THE SHREW THE TEmPEST TImoN of ATHENS TITuS ANDRoNICuS TRoIluS AND CRESSIDA TWElfTH NIGHT THE ...
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... Night's Dream, two maverick comedies revelling in myriads of verbal games. While Shakespeare inherited the story of Romeo and Juliet, mostly from a single source, Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), he ...
... Night's Dream, two maverick comedies revelling in myriads of verbal games. While Shakespeare inherited the story of Romeo and Juliet, mostly from a single source, Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), he ...
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... night with other young men from Verona without being answerable to parents, and even woo his first love, Rosaline, with rich gifts (1.1.212), such freedoms are unimaginable for Juliet. The extent of her containment by family and father ...
... night with other young men from Verona without being answerable to parents, and even woo his first love, Rosaline, with rich gifts (1.1.212), such freedoms are unimaginable for Juliet. The extent of her containment by family and father ...
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... 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 fails (23). Compared to Juliet, Romeo is almost a cipher, at least as ...
... 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 fails (23). Compared to Juliet, Romeo is almost a cipher, at least as ...
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... night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. (1.5.43–8) These contrapuntal conceits inaugurate a rhetorical ...
... night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. (1.5.43–8) These contrapuntal conceits inaugurate a rhetorical ...
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