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The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: Romeo And Juliet. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play West Side Story. Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona, and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side, both tell the story of the plight of young star-crossed- lovers.

As Norris Houghton writes in his introduction: -What we see is that...

This new translation is annotated with the comments of Yuri Zavadski, one of Russia's most acclaimed and decorated stage directors. Drawing fro his extensive experience directing under the aegis of both Stanislovski and Vakhtagnov, Zavadski illumi-nates the text of Chekhov's dramatic masterpiece.

The New Testament text has a long and varied history, in which readers, scholars and editors all play a part. Understanding the ways in which these users engage with the text, including the physical form in which they encounter the Bible, its role in liturgy, the creation of scholarly apparatus and commentary, types of quotation and allusion, and creative rewriting in different languages or genres, offers insight into its tradition and dissemination. The ten papers in this volume present original research focusing on primary material in a variety of fields and languages. Their scope stretches...