Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
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Romeo and Juliet
text of the play : sources, contexts, and early rewritings : criticism and later rewritings
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This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text.
By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day.
This edition includes: Introductory materials and explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous images; Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Klein and Thomas Otway, amongst others; Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Niamh Cusack, David Tennant and Courtney Lehmann. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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Table of Contents
A note on the text --
The text of Romeo and Juliet (based on Q2) --
Textual variants --
Sources, contexts, and early rewritings. A tale about two noble lovers (ca. 1530) / Luigi da Porto --
The unfortunate death of two most wretched lovers (1554) / Matteo Bandello --
Of two lovers (1559) / Pierre Boaistuau --
Romeus and Juliet (1562) / Arthur Brooke --
The goodly history of the true and constant love between Rhomeo and Julietta (1567) / William Painter --
Romio und Julieta: a case study of an early German Shakespeare adaptation / Kareen Seidler --
From Romio und Julieta (ca. 1680) --
From The history and fall of Caius Marius (1680) / Thomas Otway --
Criticism and later rewritings. The challenges of Romeo and Juliet / Stanley Wells --
Pre-twentieth century responses. [On Romeo and Juliet] / Samuel Johnson --
From Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt --
[On Romeo and Juliet] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
From On some of Shakespeare's female characters / Helena Faucit --
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses. Romeo and Juliet / Harley Granville-Barker --
Romeo and Juliet: comedy into tragedy / Susan Snyder --
The sonnet's body and the body sonnetized in Romeo and Juliet / Gayle Whittier --
The definition of love : Shakespeare's phrasing in Romeo and Juliet / Jill L. Levenson --
"Death-marked love" : desire and presence in Romeo and Juliet / Lloyd Davis --
De-generation : editions, offspring, and Romeo and Juliet / Wendy Wall --
Shakespeare's Mercutio / Joseph A. Porter --
The ideology of romantic love : the case of Romeo and Juliet / Dympna C. Callaghan --
Constructing identities / Sasha Roberts --
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet / Niaḿh Cusack --
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet / David Tennant --
Shakespeare with a view: Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet / Courtney Lehmann --
From William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce --
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet : Everything's nice in America? / Barbara Hodgdon --
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad (and in Stratford and London and Qatar) / Susan Bennett.
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
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