Romeo and JulietThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of Romeo and Juliet is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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William Shakespeare Peter Holland. THE PELICAN SHAKESPEARE GENERAL EDITORS STEPHEN ORGEL A. R. BRAUNMULLER Romeo and Juliet The Irish actor Spranger Barry and Isabella Nossiter in a.
William Shakespeare Peter Holland. THE PELICAN SHAKESPEARE GENERAL EDITORS STEPHEN ORGEL A. R. BRAUNMULLER Romeo and Juliet The Irish actor Spranger Barry and Isabella Nossiter in a.
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William Shakespeare Peter Holland. The Irish actor Spranger Barry and Isabella Nossiter in a Mozartean balcony scene at Drury Lane, 1753. Barry's Romeo was praised as brilliant and youthful (he was thirty-three at the time), and Nossiter ...
William Shakespeare Peter Holland. The Irish actor Spranger Barry and Isabella Nossiter in a Mozartean balcony scene at Drury Lane, 1753. Barry's Romeo was praised as brilliant and youthful (he was thirty-three at the time), and Nossiter ...
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William Shakespeare Peter Holland. Publisher's Note The Peucas Shakespeare has served generations of readers as an authoritative series of texts and scholarship since the first volume appeared under the general editorship of Alfred ...
William Shakespeare Peter Holland. Publisher's Note The Peucas Shakespeare has served generations of readers as an authoritative series of texts and scholarship since the first volume appeared under the general editorship of Alfred ...
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William Shakespeare Peter Holland. The Theatrical World Economic Realities determined the theatrical world in which Shakespeare's plays were written, performed, and received. For centuries in England, the primary theatrical tradition was ...
William Shakespeare Peter Holland. The Theatrical World Economic Realities determined the theatrical world in which Shakespeare's plays were written, performed, and received. For centuries in England, the primary theatrical tradition was ...
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... Shakespeare's mature plays were presented) and the Rose theater (which presented Christopher Marlowe's plays and some of Shakespeare's earliest ones) was the Red Lion theater of 1567. Extensive parts of the foundations of the Rose ...
... Shakespeare's mature plays were presented) and the Rose theater (which presented Christopher Marlowe's plays and some of Shakespeare's earliest ones) was the Red Lion theater of 1567. Extensive parts of the foundations of the Rose ...
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