num_pages: 496
description: This edition of the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet features the Bevington edition along with an extenstive array of primary documents to help contextualize the themes from the play, including the social relationships among men in Shakespeare’s time, views of love and the Petrarchan paradigm, spiritual life, family in Elizabethan society, and ideas about astrology, medicine, and death.
language: English
title: Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts
titlecomplete: Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)
characters: Montague., Lady Montague, Sampson, Capulet, Friar John, Paris, Escalus, Balthasar, Mercutio, Juliet, Benvolio, Friar Lawrence, Abram, Romeo, Lady Capulet
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Read For School, High School, School, Literature, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 2518919
places: Italy, Verona
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's