| Reviews |
| - 'many students will no doubt relish the fullness of Professor Levenson's notes. Indeed, they may often be particularly grateful for the care with which she directs readers to even fuller discussions to be found elsewhere' - The Review of English Studies, Vol.52, No.207
- 'Professor Levenson provides an excellent and often very thought-provoking account of performance history, and many of her most interesting discussions and annotations relate to questions of staging, traditional, unusual, or possible' - The Review of English Studies, Vol.52, No.207
- 'excellent decision to include the whole of the Q1 text as well as Q2' - The Review of English Studies, Vol.52, No.207
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| Description | | - A major new edition of one of Shakespeare's best loved and most frequently performed and studied plays
- Provides clear and comprehensive annotation for the student
- Unlike all other available editions of the play, this offfers the Q1 text in full, as well as the familiar Q2 text
- Illustrated with scenes from film as well as stage versions from different eras
| This edition of one of Shakespeare's most popular and attractive plays adopts a radically new approach to the text. It offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 'good' quarto, but also of 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 and which has continued to evolve throughout its richly
varied performance history, not only in the theatre but also in film, television, opera, and even ballet. The longer and more familiar text, first printed in 1599, is presented along with a detailed explanatory commentary sensitive to both literary and theatrical issues. The earlier, shorter text is annotated only where it differs significantly from the later.
In addition to considering
issues of performance, the Introduction traces the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the novella, a form which changed the story in subtle ways as it crossed national boundaries from Italy to France to England. It shows how Shakespeare's transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism, and
illuminates his artistic experimentations with poetry, style, rhetoric, and dramatic form. |
Readership: Undergraduates, teachers of Shakespeare, scholars, theatregoers
| Contents |
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Romeo and Juliet Narrative Before Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - the Play
Performance History
Date
The Mobile Text
Editorial Procedures
Abbreviations and References
THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
An Excellent Conceited Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
William Shakespeare
Edited by Jill L. Levenson, Professor of English, Trinty College, University of Toronto
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