Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

ISBN-13: 9780230222076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str.

Gillian Woods

Opis

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 of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Patient Ears: Early Texts and Responses Well-Seeming Forms: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Righteous Kisses and Dateless Bargains: Romantics and Victorians Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy?: Genre Criticism What's in a Word?: Language and Deconstruction Kissing by the Book: Reading Petrarchism Death-Marked Love: Psychoanalytical Criticism Juliet and her Romeo: Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory From Fair Verona to Verona Beach: Shakespeare on Film Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index.

O autorze

GILLIAN WOODS is Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Blurb

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies and has provoked a rich diversity of interpretations. Definitively passionate, it is much more than the archetypal love story: the play tests the limits of tragedy and comedy, challenges gender roles and explores the nature of language.

In this Reader's Guide, Gillian Woods:

• surveys key critical responses to Romeo and Juliet, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century
• plots a clear route through the vast array of debates, identifying chronological and thematic connections and explaining contexts
• investigates major issues and approaches such as deconstruction, psychoanalytical criticism, feminism and queer theory
• discusses film adaptations, including Baz Luhrmann's 1996 box-office hit William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.

Authoritative and accessible, this invaluable Guide provides students, teachers and researchers with a panorama of the play's critical history in all its dynamic variety.