Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

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.>

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare, Gillian Woods
• Assisted by: Nicolas Tredell (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9780230222076
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22207-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Reader's Guide to Essential Cr; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C; Reader's Guide to Essential Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean