Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Published on 7. December 2012
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-230-22206-9 (ISBN)
Description
This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
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Series
Edition
2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 13.8 cm
Weight
387 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-22206-9 (9780230222069)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-29275-9
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Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
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Person
GILLIAN WOODS is Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Content
Acknowledgements.- Note on the Text.- Introduction.- Patient Ears: Early Texts and Responses.- Well-Seeming Forms: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.- Righteous Kisses and Dateless Bargains: Romantics and Victorians.- Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy?: Genre Criticism.- What's in a Word?: Language and Deconstruction.- Kissing by the Book: Reading Petrarchism.- Death-Marked Love: Psychoanalytical Criticism.- Juliet and her Romeo: Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory.- From Fair Verona to Verona Beach: Shakespeare on Film.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.