Shakespeare Survey
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521523882
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare; Plays / Drama; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / British & Irish; Drama-Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare - William - 1564-1616 - Romeo and; Shakespeare - William - 1564-1616 - Romeo and Juliet
First sentence: The story Romeo and Juliet - one of the great myths of the Western world - first appeared fully formed in an Italian version of 1530, and since then has had a vigorous afterlife, not all of it deriving from Shakespeare.