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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... comes as a surprise to realize that several of the bestknown recent adaptations of the play do not contain a single word by Shakespeare. The play's magnetism does not reside exclusively in its language, even though it exhibits some of ...
... comes as a surprise to realize that several of the bestknown recent adaptations of the play do not contain a single word by Shakespeare. The play's magnetism does not reside exclusively in its language, even though it exhibits some of ...
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... comes, if instead of waking up in Romeo's arms she should wake alone among the dead and be asphyxiated by the foul air of the Capulet tomb, contaminated further by the recently dead Tybalt lying there festering in his shroud? 'The ...
... comes, if instead of waking up in Romeo's arms she should wake alone among the dead and be asphyxiated by the foul air of the Capulet tomb, contaminated further by the recently dead Tybalt lying there festering in his shroud? 'The ...
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... Come, gentle night, come, loving black-browed night, Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no ...
... Come, gentle night, come, loving black-browed night, Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no ...
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... comes to be lodged firmly in our minds, a wedding day intended to wrench a happy ending from the death of Tybalt when in fact it ironically triggers the tragedy. When Capulet, flush with joy at Juliet's apparent change of heart ...
... comes to be lodged firmly in our minds, a wedding day intended to wrench a happy ending from the death of Tybalt when in fact it ironically triggers the tragedy. When Capulet, flush with joy at Juliet's apparent change of heart ...
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... come / To help to take his Juliet out of the hollow tomb, / For by that time the drink, he saith, will cease to work' (Brooke, 2479–81). Why Shakespeare would fine-tune Painter's 'forty' to 'two-and-forty' without otherwise, it seems ...
... come / To help to take his Juliet out of the hollow tomb, / For by that time the drink, he saith, will cease to work' (Brooke, 2479–81). Why Shakespeare would fine-tune Painter's 'forty' to 'two-and-forty' without otherwise, it seems ...
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