Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woods, Gillian, 1979-
Other Authors: Tredell, Nicolas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Readers' guides to essential criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. One Patient Ears: Early Texts and Responses
  • ch. Two Well-Seeming Forms: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • ch. Three Righteous Kisses and Dateless Bargains: Romantics and Victorians
  • ch. Four Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy?: Genre Criticism
  • ch. Five What's in a Word?: Language and Deconstruction
  • ch. Six Kissing by the Book: Reading Petrarchism
  • ch. Seven Death-Marked Love: Psychoanalytical Criticism
  • ch. Eight Juliet and Her Romeo: Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory
  • ch. Nine From Fair Verona to Verona Beach: Shakespeare on Film.