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Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare - Oxford World's Classics
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare - Oxford World's Classics
William Shakespeare
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.
464 pages, numerous black and white plates
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 17, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780199535897 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Dimensions | 129 × 196 × 26 mm · 466 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Levenson, Jill L. (Professor of English, Professor of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto) |
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