Woods Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-29275-9
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Gillian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- Note on the Text.- Introduction.- Patient Ears: Early Texts and Responses.- Well-Seeming Forms: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.- Righteous Kisses and Dateless Bargains: Romantics and Victorians.- Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy?: Genre Criticism.- What's in a Word?: Language and Deconstruction.- Kissing by the Book: Reading Petrarchism.- Death-Marked Love: Psychoanalytical Criticism.- Juliet and her Romeo: Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory.- From Fair Verona to Verona Beach: Shakespeare on Film.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

GILLIAN WOODS is Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.