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Romeo and Juliet

The New Oxford Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Romeo and Juliet opens with a haunting line: 'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'. This edition offers a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August provides insightful analysis, focusing particularly on the dramatic function of the famous prologue... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

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Romeo and Juliet opens with a haunting line: 'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'. This edition offers a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers.

Hannah August provides insightful analysis, focusing particularly on the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. She explores ways of reading the play as a text that questions, rather than validates, the conventions of heterosexual romantic love. Her examination reveals that, at multiple points in the play's over four-hundred-year stage history, Verona has been portrayed in a more queer light than the traditional view of Romeo and Juliet as a core text of heterosexual love might suggest.

The edition includes a substantial section addressing the play's early modern production and reception history in both print and performance. It also provides an overview of later performance traditions, using up-to-date examples of key productions.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials aimed at encouraging new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes present readers with the latest insights into the authentic texts, collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work, alongside innovative introductions by leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus, providing the best resources for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's work.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available a vast range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text along with a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780192866363

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • General editor Emma Smith
  • Edited by Hannah August
  • Edited by Francis X. Conor
  • Edited by Francis X. Connor

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 146g

Pages: 192

Collections

Classic Poetry Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics William Shakespeare

About the Author

Hannah August is Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. She holds a UPhD and MA from King's College London and undergraduate degrees from the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the author of Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (2022) and several book chapters and articles on the history of reading early modern drama. Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.

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