Romeo and Juliet
Subtitle: texts and contexts
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by Dympna Callaghan.
Contributors: Callaghan, Dympna.
Series: The Bedford Shakespeare series
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780312191924
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. -- Sources; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Romeo (Fictitious character) -- Drama; Juliet (Fictitious character) -- Drama; Conflict of generations -- Drama; Vendetta -- Drama; Youth -- Drama; Verona (Italy) -- Drama
Genres: Sources.; Drama.
Description: This edition of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to fit many different approaches to Shakespeare’s play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include travel accounts, poetry, excerpts from early modern fencing manuals, royal proclamations and statutes, tables and prognostications from an early modern almanac, and orders for religious ceremonies from The Book of Common Prayer. Unique to this edition, too, is the inclusion of numerous unpublished manuscript letters of the Bagot family and some poignantly moving passages from the diary of Lady Anne Clifford. The documents contextualize the social relationships among men in Shakespeare’s time, violence in Elizabethan society, views of love and the Petrarchan paradigm, spiritual life, family in Elizabethan society, and ideas about astrology, medicine, and death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-457) and index.
Table of contents: title: ABOUT THE SERIES; title: ABOUT THIS VOLUME; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Introduction; title: PART ONE; title: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; title: (Edited by David Bevington); title: PART TWO; title: Cultural Contexts; title: 1. Italy; title: The Idea of Italy for Shakespeare's English Audience; title: Fynes Moryson, From His Ten Years Travel; title: Roger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster; title: Thomas Nashe, From The Unfortunate Traveler, or the Life of Jack Wilton; title: William Thomas, From The History of Italy; title: G.B.A.F., From A Discovery of the Great Subtlety and Wonderful Wisdom of the Italians; title: Andreas Franciscus, From A Description of the Author's Journey from Trento to London; title: 2. Between Men; title: Relationships between Men; title: Richard Barnfield, From The Affectionate Shepherd; title: Vincentio Saviolo, From His Practice; title: George Silver, From Paradoxes of Defense; title: Keeping the Peace; title: Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Enforcing Statutes of Apparel; title: Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Prohibiting Unlawful Assembly under Martial Law; title: Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Enforcing Earlier Proclamation against Handguns; title: King James I, Proclamation Prohibiting the Publishing of Any Reports or Writing of Duels; title: William Fleetwood, Report to Lord Burghley; title: 3. Loving and Marrying; title: Charles Gibbon, From A Work Worth the Reading; title: John Stockwood, From A Bartholomew Fairing for Parents; title: Thomas Hilder, From Conjugal Counsel: or, Seasonable Advice, Both to Unmarried, and Married Persons; title: Henry Swinburne, From A Treatise of Spousals; title: John Donne, Letter to Sir George More; title: Francesco Petrarch, From The Canzoniere; title: Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 9; title: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130; title: Solemnization of Matrimony; title: 4. Family Life; title: Richard Day, A Prayer of Children for Their Parents; title: Correspondence of the Bagot Family; title: Richard Bagot, Letter to Richard Broughton; title: Lord John Lumley, Letter to Richard Bagot Esquire; title: Thomas Rugeley, Letter to Richard Bagot; title: Walter Bagot, Letter to Henry Skipwith; title: Richard Rugeley, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Walter Bagot, Letter to an Unidentified Man; title: Edmund Waring, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Sir John Ferrers, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Jane Skipwith (Roberts), Lady Markham, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Jane Skipwith, Letter to Lewes Bagot; title: Jane Skipwith, Letters to Walter Bagot; title: Walter Bagot, Letter to Henry Skipwith; title: Lewes Bagot, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Robert Broughton, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Lady Elinor Cave, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Sir Thomas Cokayne, Letter to Walter Bagot; title: Walter Bagot, Letter to Christopher Brooke; title: Martin Heton, Letter to Richard Bagot; title: Mothering; title: Lady Elizabeth (Knyvett) Clinton, Countess of Lincoln, From The Countess of Lincoln's; title: Nursery; title: Henry Smith, From A Preparative to Marriage; title: Lady Anne Clifford, From The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford; title: Sir Hugh Platt, From Delights for Ladies to Adorn Their Persons, Tables, Closets, and; title: Distillatories; title: 5. Friars; title: St. Bonaventure, From The Life of the Most Holy Father St. Francis; title: John Foxe, From Acts and Monuments; title: Edmund Spenser, From The Faerie Queene; title: 6. Death and the Stars; title: Love and Death; title: Jacques Ferrand, From Erotomania; title: From An Act Concerning Physicians and Royal College of Physicians of London, From Pharmacopoeia Londonensis; title: Nicholas Culpeper, From Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; title: Richard Day, A Prayer to Be Said at Our Going to Bed and A Prayer When We Be Ready to Sleep; title: Astrology; title: Funerals and Monuments; title: The Order for the Burial of the Dead; title: Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Prohibiting Destruction of Church Monuments; title: John Jewel, From An Homily Against Apparel of Idolatry and Superfluous Decking of; title: Churches; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: INDEX