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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: McMullan, Gordon, 1962- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
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.