Romeo and Juliet Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), McMullan, Gordon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393926265 ISBN-13: 9780393926262 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.81 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare |
Dewey: 822.33 |
LCCN: 2016013759 |
Lexile Measure: 570 |
Series: Norton Critical Editions |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 448 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. The Norton Critical 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 Seidler, and Thomas Otway, among others. - Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Nia?h Cusack, David Tennant, and Courtney Lehmann. - A Selected Bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMullan, Gordon: - Gordon McMullan (D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death and The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher, and editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII and the Norton Critical Edition of 1 Henry IV. He is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including Late Style and Its Discontents, Women Making Shakespeare, Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, and In Arden: Editing Shakespeare. |