Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

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This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Note on the Text (p. xii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Patient Ears: Early Texts and Responses (p. 7)
• Chapter 2 Well-Seeming Forms: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (p. 20)
• Chapter 3 Righteous Kisses and Dateless Bargains: Romantics and Victorians (p. 31)
• Chapter 4 Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy?: Genre Criticism (p. 46)
• Chapter 5 What's in a Word?: Language and Deconstruction (p. 66)
• Chapter 6 Kissing by the Book: Reading Petrarchism (p. 92)
• Chapter 7 Death-Marked Love: Psychoanalytical Criticism (p. 109)
• Chapter 8 Juliet and Her Romeo: Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory (p. 122)
• Chapter 9 From Fair Verona to Verona Beach: Shakespeare on Film (p. 149)
• Conclusion (p. 158)
• Notes (p. 161)
• Select Bibliography (p. 173)
• Index (p. 177)