Romeo and Juliet
Subtitle: text of the play : sources, contexts, and early rewritings : criticism and later rewritings
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780393926262
Description: This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text.

By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day.

This edition includes: Introductory materials and explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous images; Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Klein and Thomas Otway, amongst others; Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Niamh Cusack, David Tennant and Courtney Lehmann. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Source: https://www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393926262-romeo-and-juliet
Table of contents: title: A note on the text --; title: The text of Romeo and Juliet (based on Q2) --; title: Textual variants --; title: Sources, contexts, and early rewritings. A tale about two noble lovers (ca. 1530) / Luigi da Porto --; title: The unfortunate death of two most wretched lovers (1554) / Matteo Bandello --; title: Of two lovers (1559) / Pierre Boaistuau --; title: Romeus and Juliet (1562) / Arthur Brooke --; title: The goodly history of the true and constant love between Rhomeo and Julietta (1567) / William Painter --; title: Romio und Julieta: a case study of an early German Shakespeare adaptation / Kareen Seidler --; title: From Romio und Julieta (ca. 1680) --; title: From The history and fall of Caius Marius (1680) / Thomas Otway --; title: Criticism and later rewritings. The challenges of Romeo and Juliet / Stanley Wells --; title: Pre-twentieth century responses. [On Romeo and Juliet] / Samuel Johnson --; title: From Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt --; title: [On Romeo and Juliet] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --; title: From On some of Shakespeare's female characters / Helena Faucit --; title: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses. Romeo and Juliet / Harley Granville-Barker --; title: Romeo and Juliet: comedy into tragedy / Susan Snyder --; title: The sonnet's body and the body sonnetized in Romeo and Juliet / Gayle Whittier --; title: The definition of love : Shakespeare's phrasing in Romeo and Juliet / Jill L. Levenson --; title: "Death-marked love" : desire and presence in Romeo and Juliet / Lloyd Davis --; title: De-generation : editions, offspring, and Romeo and Juliet / Wendy Wall --; title: Shakespeare's Mercutio / Joseph A. Porter --; title: The ideology of romantic love : the case of Romeo and Juliet / Dympna C. Callaghan --; title: Constructing identities / Sasha Roberts --; title: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet / Niaḿh Cusack --; title: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet / David Tennant --; title: Shakespeare with a view: Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet / Courtney Lehmann --; title: From William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce --; title: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet : Everything's nice in America? / Barbara Hodgdon --; title: Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad (and in Stratford and London and Qatar) / Susan Bennett.