num_pages: 450
description: This innovative edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays 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 toevolve 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 the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in thenovella, and shows how Shakespeare's transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism.
language: English
title: Romeo and Juliet
titlecomplete: Romeo and Juliet
characters: Montague., Escalus, Mercutio, Capulet, Friar Lawrence, Abram, Balthasar, Friar John, Benvolio, Lady Montague, Romeo, Paris, Juliet, Lady Capulet, Sampson
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Read For School, High School, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 2519215
places: Italy, Verona
publisher: Oxford University Press