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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... Benvolio (Martin Jacobs) and the convertible Alfa Romeo, in the 1986 RST production directed by Michael Bogdanov (Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) 15The Capulets' home, in the 1947 RST production directed by ...
... Benvolio (Martin Jacobs) and the convertible Alfa Romeo, in the 1986 RST production directed by Michael Bogdanov (Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) 15The Capulets' home, in the 1947 RST production directed by ...
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... Benvolio and Mercutio and with the Friar. The fact is that, the play's double title notwithstanding, its focus rests squarely on Juliet. Its final couplet, with a strategically placed possessive pronoun, says as much: 'For never was a ...
... Benvolio and Mercutio and with the Friar. The fact is that, the play's double title notwithstanding, its focus rests squarely on Juliet. Its final couplet, with a strategically placed possessive pronoun, says as much: 'For never was a ...
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... Benvolio's sake. These are parodied by Mercutio's 'Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in' (2.4.38–9); they are the 'Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical ...
... Benvolio's sake. These are parodied by Mercutio's 'Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in' (2.4.38–9); they are the 'Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical ...
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... Benvolio about his love for Juliet is because it constitutes 'not only a challenge to the feud but also a challenge to associations of masculinity and sexuality with violence' (Novy, 106). It is also the case that the love plot is too ...
... Benvolio about his love for Juliet is because it constitutes 'not only a challenge to the feud but also a challenge to associations of masculinity and sexuality with violence' (Novy, 106). It is also the case that the love plot is too ...
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... Benvolio's challenge that at the Capulets' ball he will show him young women of such beauty that 'I will make thee think thy swan a crow' (which, ironically, is exactly what happens, with Romeo even recalling the image on seeing Juliet ...
... Benvolio's challenge that at the Capulets' ball he will show him young women of such beauty that 'I will make thee think thy swan a crow' (which, ironically, is exactly what happens, with Romeo even recalling the image on seeing Juliet ...
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