Romeo and Juliet - Parallel Texts of Quarto I (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)

Informationen zum Autor Jay L. Halio is professor emeritus of English at the University of Delaware. Klappentext Using this edition, the reader may see at once how Shakespeare's manuscript of the play, upon which the second quarto (Q2) is based, was adapted for the Elizabethan stage by the author and/or his colleagues. Q1 is considerably shorter than Q2. While many long speeches are cut, abbreviated, or revised, the structure of the play remains essentially as Shakespeare originally conceived it. Q1 is thus quite different, for instance, from Q1 Hamlet, whose provenance is still open to debate. While both of these early quartos were once believed to be memorial reconstructions, and thus "Bad" quartos, the theory of memorial reconstructions has now been seriously disputed.

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• Authors: Jay L. Halio
• Assisted by: Jay Halio (Editor), Jay L Halio (Editor), Jay L. Halio (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611491029
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-102-9
• No. of pages: 175
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature: history & criticism, Literary reference works, Literary studies: plays & playwrights