Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet: Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre [With CDROM]

by Lynette Hunter and Peter Lichtenfels

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754658449
• ISBN13: 9780754658443
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"