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"Highly Recommended."
The Gale Group (print)
The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet has
touched the hearts of young and old for nearly four hundred years.
This work presents both historical and contemporary materials and
examines the play from many perspectives, ranging from information
about the earliest performances of Romeo and Juliet
to discussions of teen suicide in the 1990s.
Subjects explored are as specific as the Werther
Syndrome (copycat suicide based on fictional models) and as
general as the nature of vendetta and group violence. Following
a literary analysis of the play, this sourcebook provides
commentary and primary documents on its narrative backgrounds and
sources and selections from those sources; a discussion of its performance
history in theater, opera and film; the historical context of
the play as a exploration of the nature of love, with selections
from poetry of the period; and an examination of modern
interpretations of the play such as the Leonardo DiCaprio-Claire
Danes film, all of which help modern readers to relate to the play.
In addition, this online sourcebook provides
the user access to:
- E-texts of Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, Troilus
and Criseyde, Astrophil and Stella, Romeus and Juliet, in
addition to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra,
Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and others
- Shakespeare's Globe Research Database with 16th century sketches
of the original Globe Theatre
- Virtual tour of the new Globe Theatre, London, including the
reconstruction process
- Pictorial survey of English and American actors who played
Romeo and Juliet for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences
- Collection of illustrative works depicting 150 scenes from
Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Renaissance art photo gallery
- Audio of Sir John Gielgud reading from Sonnets of William
Shakespeare
- West Side Story: Journal, Interviews, Score and Photos, including
Bernstein's copy of Romeo and Juliet
- Image gallery from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet
- Biographical profiles of Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sydney, Ovid,
Chaucer, Petrarch, Richard Burbage, David Garrick, Spranger
Barry, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Alec Guinness, Laurence
Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Leonard Bernstein, John Barrymore
and others
- Glossary of cultural references and historical idioms from
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Contextual timeline
- Web-based study questions
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