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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... hand of Juliet (Claire Danes) in Baz Luhrmann's film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 1996 (AKG Images) 4 David Garrick and Anne Bellamy as Romeo and Juliet, engraving by Benjamin Wilson, 1753 (courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare ...
... hand of Juliet (Claire Danes) in Baz Luhrmann's film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 1996 (AKG Images) 4 David Garrick and Anne Bellamy as Romeo and Juliet, engraving by Benjamin Wilson, 1753 (courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare ...
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... hand in marriage after Tybalt's death.4 The word 'thirteen' never occurs in the play, but Juliet speaks thirteen lines in Act 5, one line for every year of her life, with the thirteenth ending on 'die' (5.3.170). Such evident self ...
... hand in marriage after Tybalt's death.4 The word 'thirteen' never occurs in the play, but Juliet speaks thirteen lines in Act 5, one line for every year of her life, with the thirteenth ending on 'die' (5.3.170). Such evident self ...
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... hand, as Romeo watches her from the orchard below her window, yearning to be a glove on that hand. The play's dazzling metaphors dare us to experience, not just witness, the lovers' beauty and courting. (See Fig. 2.) One of the ...
... hand, as Romeo watches her from the orchard below her window, yearning to be a glove on that hand. The play's dazzling metaphors dare us to experience, not just witness, the lovers' beauty and courting. (See Fig. 2.) One of the ...
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... hands and above all lips and kissing give physical sustenance to their love and ground the lofty strain of idealization that permeates Romeo's cosmic conceits in particular. After all, one ... hand to help chase girls. Mercutio's lubricious.
... hands and above all lips and kissing give physical sustenance to their love and ground the lofty strain of idealization that permeates Romeo's cosmic conceits in particular. After all, one ... hand to help chase girls. Mercutio's lubricious.
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Third Series William Shakespeare René Weis. friends are to hand to help chase girls. Mercutio's lubricious jokes refer to Rosaline; he dies before Romeo can tell him that he has just married Tybalt's cousin and that therefore he will not ...
Third Series William Shakespeare René Weis. friends are to hand to help chase girls. Mercutio's lubricious jokes refer to Rosaline; he dies before Romeo can tell him that he has just married Tybalt's cousin and that therefore he will not ...
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