Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet: Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781138259591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 254 str.

Lynette Hunter; Peter Lichtenfels

Opis

Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to produce new insights into the early modern family and the individual, and society in the context of early modern capitalism. Inspired by recent work in cultural materialism and the material book, it also foregrounds the ways in which the contexts and the text itself become available to the reader today.

Recenzje

'The authors do an excellent job exploring what they call "the border between bibliography and literary criticism, on the one hand, and the performance history of theatre practice and contemporary production strategies, on the other" to reveal alternative ways of understanding Romeo and Juliet. This will become essential reading for students, teachers, scholars, and all theatre professionals interested in Shakespeare's great romantic tragedy.' Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware, USA ’From the deadly first word of its title onwards, Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet is an exemplary piece of contemporary textual scholarship. ... will interest those who want to know how the printed book and the internet may best complement one another ... Here is perhaps the most careful and thorough account yet of the play's textual history, in a very wide sense.’ Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Reading, Acting and Editing: The reader and the text; The actor and the stage; The editor and the book. Part 2 Transdisciplinary Work: The family: behaviour, convention, social agreement and their breakdown; The humours: anarchy and doubleness; Governance: the law, medicine and the recuperation of the social; Coda: future readings; References; Index; DVD contents.

O autorze

Lynette Hunter, Professor of Dramatic Art, University of California -Davis, USA. Peter Lichtenfels, Head of Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California-Davis, USA.