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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.
Product details
Published | 07 Dec 2012 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 200 |
ISBN | 9781137292759 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Series | Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |