Romeo and Juliet : text of the play, sources, contexts, and early rewritings, criticism and later rewritings / William Shakespeare ; edited by Gordon McMullan.
| Author/creator |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 author. |
| Other author/creator | McMullan, Gordon, 1962- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2017 |
| Description | xxvi, 412 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. ^A538572 |
| Contents | A note on the text -- The text of Romeo and Juliet (based on Q2) -- Textual variants -- Sources, contexts, and early rewritings -- Luigi da Porto: The unfortunate death of two most wretched lovers -- Matteo Bandello: Of two lovers -- Pierre Boaistuau: The story of two lovers -- Arthur Brooke: Romeus and Juliet -- William Painter: The Goodly history of the love between Rhomeo and Julietta -- Karren Seidler: Romio und Julieta: a case study of an early German Shakespeare adaptation; excerpts from Romio und Julieta -- Thomas Otway: The History and fall of Caius Marius -- Criticism and later rewritings. Stanley Wells: The challenges of Romeo and Juliet -- Pre-twentieth century responses. Samuel Johnson: On Romeo and Juliet -- William Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespear's plays -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On Romeo and Juliet -- Helena Faucit: On Shakespeare's female characters -- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses. Harley Granville Barker: On Romeo and Juliet -- Susan Snyder: Romeo and Juliet: comedy into tragedy -- Gayle Whittier: The sonnet's body and the body sonnetized -- Jill l. Levenson: Shakespeare's phrasing -- Lloyd Davis: Desire and presence -- Wendy Wall -- Joseph A. Porter: Mercutio -- Dympna C. Callaghan: The ideology of romantic love -- Sasha Roberts: Constructing identities -- Niah Cusack: Juliet -- David Tennant: Romeo -- Courtney Lehmann: Shakespeare with a view: Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet -- Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce: From William Shakespear's Ro-meo & Juliet -- Barbara Hodgdon: Everything's nice in America? -- Susan Bennett: Romeo & Juliet in Baghdad. |
| Abstract | "This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text. By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars, and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day. The Norton Critical Edition includes: Introductory materials and explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous images. Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Klein, and Thomas Otway, among others. Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Niah Cusack, David Tennant, and Courtney Lehmann."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| LCCN | 2016013759 |
| ISBN | 9780393926262 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0393926265 (pbk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR2831.A2 M36 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |