Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including
critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies,
this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to produce new
insights into the early modern family, the individual, and society
in the context of early modern capitalism. Inspired by recent work
in cultural materialism and the material book, it also foregrounds
the ways in which the contexts and the text itself become available
to the reader today. The opening material on critical/historical
approaches focuses on the way that readers have frequently read and
played the text to explore issues that cluster around the family,
marriage, gender and sexuality. Chapter two, on the ways that
actors today inhabit character and create behaviour, provides
intertextual comment on acting in the early modern period, and the
connections between acting and social behaviour that inform
self-image and the performance of identity both then and now. The
third chapter on printing/publishing approaches to the text offers
a detective story about the differences between Quarto One and
Quarto Two, that focuses on the curious appearance in Quarto Two of
material related to the law at word, phrase, line and scene level.
The next three chapters integrate a close study of the language of
the play to negotiate its potential significance for the present in
the areas of: Family, Marriage, Gender and Sexuality; Identity,
Individualism and Humanism; and the Law, Religion and Medicine.
Among the startling aspects of this book are that it: - takes the
part of Juliet far more seriously than other criticism has tended
to do, attributing to her agency and aspects of character that
develop the part suddenly from girl to woman; - recognizes the way
the play explores early modern identity, becoming a handbook for
individualism and humanism in the private domestic setting of early
capitalism; and - brings to light the least recognized element in
the play at the moment, its demonstration of the emerging
structures of state power, governance by law, the introduction of
surveillance, detection and witness, and the formation of what we
now call the 'subject'. The volume includes on DVD a scholarly
edition with commentary of the text of Romeo & Juliet, which
re-instates many of the original early modern versions of the play.
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