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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... Dream Sources Brooke's Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Tybalt, Mercutio and Paris Performing love From London (c. 1596) and Cambridge (c. 1598–1601) to Douai (1694–5) From Garrick (1748) to Berlioz (1839) and Cushman (1845) From ...
... Dream Sources Brooke's Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Tybalt, Mercutio and Paris Performing love From London (c. 1596) and Cambridge (c. 1598–1601) to Douai (1694–5) From Garrick (1748) to Berlioz (1839) and Cushman (1845) From ...
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... 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 created ...
... 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 created ...
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... Dream) or the perfect height for a thirteen-year-old girl, what colour her eyes are, or whether her hair is blonde, as it appears to be in Brooke when 'with cruel hand she tare her golden hairs' (2389) just as Brooke's Romeus tears 'his ...
... Dream) or the perfect height for a thirteen-year-old girl, what colour her eyes are, or whether her hair is blonde, as it appears to be in Brooke when 'with cruel hand she tare her golden hairs' (2389) just as Brooke's Romeus tears 'his ...
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... Dream, a play with close links to Romeo and Juliet, the wood near Athens proves as impervious to time as the forest of Arden. In A Midsummer Night's Dream a notional time-frame for the play's action is established early on when Theseus ...
... Dream, a play with close links to Romeo and Juliet, the wood near Athens proves as impervious to time as the forest of Arden. In A Midsummer Night's Dream a notional time-frame for the play's action is established early on when Theseus ...
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... Dream about its season, the 'dog days' of high summer, leading up to Juliet's birthday on 31 July. Unlike May in A Midsummer Night's Dream, July is not mentioned in the text. Instead, Lammastide, 1 August, and Lammas Eve, 31 July ...
... Dream about its season, the 'dog days' of high summer, leading up to Juliet's birthday on 31 July. Unlike May in A Midsummer Night's Dream, July is not mentioned in the text. Instead, Lammastide, 1 August, and Lammas Eve, 31 July ...
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