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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... roles (so headed to emphasize the play's status as a text for performance) is also considered in the commentary notes. These may include comment on plausible patterns of casting with the resources of an Elizabethan or Jacobean acting ...
... roles (so headed to emphasize the play's status as a text for performance) is also considered in the commentary notes. These may include comment on plausible patterns of casting with the resources of an Elizabethan or Jacobean acting ...
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... Roles, 1n.). Although her extreme youth is commented on solicitously by her father when talking to her suitor Paris – he would prefer her to be fifteen or sixteen (1.2.9–11), echoing Brooke – such considerations play a part no longer ...
... Roles, 1n.). Although her extreme youth is commented on solicitously by her father when talking to her suitor Paris – he would prefer her to be fifteen or sixteen (1.2.9–11), echoing Brooke – such considerations play a part no longer ...
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... roles: Capulet's is the fourth-longest part in the play, after Romeo's, Juliet's and the Friar's, and his wife's is the eighth-longest. Her age, like her daughter's, is tantalizingly open to interpretation: 'By my count, / I was your ...
... roles: Capulet's is the fourth-longest part in the play, after Romeo's, Juliet's and the Friar's, and his wife's is the eighth-longest. Her age, like her daughter's, is tantalizingly open to interpretation: 'By my count, / I was your ...
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... role for their bodies. Eyes, cheeks, hands and above all lips and kissing give physical sustenance to their love and ... roles in the play is to expose the sham of courtly love and its pre-Freudian pretence that a lover is fuelled by ...
... role for their bodies. Eyes, cheeks, hands and above all lips and kissing give physical sustenance to their love and ... roles in the play is to expose the sham of courtly love and its pre-Freudian pretence that a lover is fuelled by ...
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... role in the rhetorical texture of a play which attributes extraordinary power of control to language (see Appendix 3). Benvolio's first full line in the play is in verse, as he tries to impose order on chaos, something the Prince too ...
... role in the rhetorical texture of a play which attributes extraordinary power of control to language (see Appendix 3). Benvolio's first full line in the play is in verse, as he tries to impose order on chaos, something the Prince too ...
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