Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
Book Details
Author(s)Gillian Woods
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0230222072
ISBN-139780230222076
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,127,027
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies and has provoked a rich diversity of interpretations. Definitively passionate, it is much more than the archetypal love story: the play tests the limits of tragedy and comedy, challenges gender roles and explores the nature of language.
In this Reader's Guide, Gillian Woods:
• surveys key critical responses to Romeo and Juliet, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century
• plots a clear route through the vast array of debates, identifying chronological and thematic connections and explaining contexts
• investigates major issues and approaches such as deconstruction, psychoanalytical criticism, feminism and queer theory
• discusses film adaptations, including Baz Luhrmann's 1996 box-office hit William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
Authoritative and accessible, this invaluable Guide provides students, teachers and researchers with a panorama of the play's critical history in all its dynamic variety.
In this Reader's Guide, Gillian Woods:
• surveys key critical responses to Romeo and Juliet, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century
• plots a clear route through the vast array of debates, identifying chronological and thematic connections and explaining contexts
• investigates major issues and approaches such as deconstruction, psychoanalytical criticism, feminism and queer theory
• discusses film adaptations, including Baz Luhrmann's 1996 box-office hit William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
Authoritative and accessible, this invaluable Guide provides students, teachers and researchers with a panorama of the play's critical history in all its dynamic variety.
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