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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... sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' Love and literary form Time's winged chariot The dates of first performance and publication Lord Hunsdon's servants and Will Kemp at the Curtain (1596–7?) Earth tremors and thirteen-year-old ...
... sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' Love and literary form Time's winged chariot The dates of first performance and publication Lord Hunsdon's servants and Will Kemp at the Curtain (1596–7?) Earth tremors and thirteen-year-old ...
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... restored his hero's Italian name. 9 Love's young sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' The. 1 Juliet (Dorothy Tutin) and Nurse (Edith Evans), in the 1961 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Peter Hall.
... restored his hero's Italian name. 9 Love's young sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' The. 1 Juliet (Dorothy Tutin) and Nurse (Edith Evans), in the 1961 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Peter Hall.
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Third Series William Shakespeare René Weis. 9 Love's young sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' The dramatic trajectory of Romeo and Juliet follows Romeo's progress through the physical ... sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy'
Third Series William Shakespeare René Weis. 9 Love's young sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy' The dramatic trajectory of Romeo and Juliet follows Romeo's progress through the physical ... sweet song: 'an excellent conceited tragedy'
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... sweet' upon a bank in Belmont (MV 5.2.54) on such a night as lovers keep their trysts. However evocative and romantic the moon may be, it belongs to the wooing world of Romeo and Rosaline. This is why Juliet asks him to swear instead by ...
... sweet' upon a bank in Belmont (MV 5.2.54) on such a night as lovers keep their trysts. However evocative and romantic the moon may be, it belongs to the wooing world of Romeo and Rosaline. This is why Juliet asks him to swear instead by ...
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... sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself. ROMEO I take thee at thy word. Call me but ...
... sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself. ROMEO I take thee at thy word. Call me but ...
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