Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Zusatztext excellent decision to include the whole of the Q1 text as well as Q2 Klappentext This innovative edition offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or 'bad', quarto of 1597, regarding each as witness to a 'mobile text' which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it and which has continued to evolve throughout its richly varied history, both in the theatre and in film, television, opera, and ballet. The more familiar 1599 text is accompanied by a detailed explanatory commentary. The Introduction traces theRomeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the novella, and shows how Shakespeare's transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism. Zusammenfassung This edition of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" offers modernized texts of both the 1599 "good" quarto and the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as an independent witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Jill L. Levenson (Editor), Levenson Jill L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 0 to 1
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2000
• EAN: 9780198129370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812937-0
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford Shakespeare (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean