Romeo and JulietRandom House Publishing Group, 2009 M08 25 - 240 páginas "The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature." William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings around the world in mediums that include literature, dance, stage, and screen. "It is Shakespear all over, and Shakespear when he was young," declares William Hazlitt (1778-1830), acclaimed British essayist and critic, in his exuberant Introduction to this Modern Library edition. "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventuríd piteous overthrows, Do with their death bury their parents' strife." --Prologue |
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... to be substantial . " Juliet has to deal with another fear . For a girl in Shakespeare's time , chastity was a priceless commodity . To lose her virtue without the prospect of marriage would be to lose herself . INTRODUCTION xiii.
... to be substantial . " Juliet has to deal with another fear . For a girl in Shakespeare's time , chastity was a priceless commodity . To lose her virtue without the prospect of marriage would be to lose herself . INTRODUCTION xiii.
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... Marriage was a matter not of love , but of the consolidation and perpetuation of wealth and status . Arthur Brooke , author of the Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet which Shakespeare had before him as he wrote , told his readers ...
... Marriage was a matter not of love , but of the consolidation and perpetuation of wealth and status . Arthur Brooke , author of the Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet which Shakespeare had before him as he wrote , told his readers ...
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Contenido
Textual Notes | 115 |
The RSC and Beyond | 130 |
Shakespeares Career in the Theater | 180 |
A Chronology | 194 |
References | 200 |
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