'In popular imagination Romeo and Juliet stands out as a tower among Shakespeare's plays, thanks to its secure place in school curricula, its famous speeches and scenes, its rich production history, and the frequency with which it has been turned into operas, ballets, and films. With a final section dedicated to productions screened during the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a landmark edition for a new generation of readers.'Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter The scholarship and sensibility are up-to-the-minute and the writing, while not pulling any punches where they are deserved, is profoundly attuned to the play's own lyricism and tenderness. It takes the reader on a journey through key themes and the play's long and complex performance history, which includes opera, musicals, and ballet.

'Hester Lees-Jeffries' introduction is as accessible as it is wide-ranging and profoundly learned. Blakemore Evans the Textual Analysis is prefaced with a short note contextualising its conclusions in the light of more recent research. The edition retains the commentary and Textual Analysis of the previous editor, G. 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.

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.

Description Product filter button Descriptionįor this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction.

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