Romeo and Juliet : text of the play, sources, contexts, and early rewritings, criticism and later rewritings /
"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 R...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Norton critical edition.
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Table of 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.