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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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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.