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For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester
Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws
on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its
mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by
Shakespeare and other literature of the period, as well as with the
social and cultural contexts of the day, with discussions of London
and Italy, dancing and duelling, marriage, gender and sexuality. It
includes detailed discussion of the play in performance from the
Restoration to the present day, with a particular focus on film
(including global cinema), music and dance, and also explores other
adaptations and afterlives, including young-adult fiction. The
edition retains the commentary and Textual Analysis of the previous
editor, G. Blakemore Evans; the Textual Analysis is prefaced with a
short note contextualising its conclusions in the light of more
recent research.
Additional Contributors Include Jack Stillinger, Gardiner
Stillwell, D. C. Allen, Douglas Bush, And Others.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its
up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series
features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays
and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of
new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second
edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new
introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read
poems. In a series of focused readings he probes the sonnets'
sexual and temperamental ambiguity as well as their complex textual
history, and explores the difficulties editors face when
modernising the spelling, punctuation and layout of the 1609
quarto. Orgel reminds us that the order in which the sonnets were
composed bears no relation to the order in which they appear in the
quarto and he warns against reading them biographically. This
edition retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together
with his notes and commentary.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its
up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series
features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays
and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of
new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second
edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new
introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read
poems. In a series of focused readings he probes the sonnets'
sexual and temperamental ambiguity as well as their complex textual
history, and explores the difficulties editors face when
modernising the spelling, punctuation and layout of the 1609
quarto. Orgel reminds us that the order in which the sonnets were
composed bears no relation to the order in which they appear in the
quarto and he warns against reading them biographically. This
edition retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together
with his notes and commentary.
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