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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... 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-awareness 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-awareness in ...
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... marry Paris while being Romeo's wife. Nurse's nearly toothless presence (1.3.13–14) may indicate an older woman, as may her ... marriage, the son of his wife's brother (3.1.148), is he Rosaline's brother? If he is, that might account for ...
... marry Paris while being Romeo's wife. Nurse's nearly toothless presence (1.3.13–14) may indicate an older woman, as may her ... marriage, the son of his wife's brother (3.1.148), is he Rosaline's brother? If he is, that might account for ...
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... marriage.10 Romeo's first sight of Juliet at her parents' ball draws from him a spontaneous rhapsodic response: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ...
... marriage.10 Romeo's first sight of Juliet at her parents' ball draws from him a spontaneous rhapsodic response: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ...
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... married Tybalt's cousin and that therefore he will not accept Tybalt's challenge. The play bristles with sexual ... marry. Arguably more than Juliet, Romeo stays in the realm of idealizing love, his friendship with Mercutio ...
... married Tybalt's cousin and that therefore he will not accept Tybalt's challenge. The play bristles with sexual ... marry. Arguably more than Juliet, Romeo stays in the realm of idealizing love, his friendship with Mercutio ...
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... marriage to Paris (4.1.54, 62; 4.3.23), and it is by stabbing herself that she dies a suicide. Romeo launches their ... married that lives married long, / But she's best married that dies married young' (77–8), he remonstrates with them ...
... marriage to Paris (4.1.54, 62; 4.3.23), and it is by stabbing herself that she dies a suicide. Romeo launches their ... married that lives married long, / But she's best married that dies married young' (77–8), he remonstrates with them ...
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