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A rich collection of commentary and primary documents that will enhance the reader's understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Table of Contents

Preface Analysis of Romeo and Juliet Narrative Backgrounds to Romeo and Juliet The Narrative Source of Romeo and Juliet The Lyrical Source of Romeo and Juliet The History of Performance of Romeo and Juliet The Historical Context of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet in the Nineties Glossary of Terms and Names Index

About the Author

ALAN HAGER is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Cortland and author of Major Tudor Authors: A Biocritical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1997).

Reviews

.,."very impressive... A fine casebook, one that students and faculty alike ought to find well suited to their purposes. Very sensitive ideas on the movements of the play."-David Bevington The University of Chicago

"Alan Hager's casebook provides teachers with more than just documents about Shakespeare's play. It elaborates arguments and analyses that will engage young minds in high school and college on such topics as poetry, art, dramatic performance, and politics, teen culture, and gang warfare that compel student interest on all levels."-Mary Lynch Kennedy Professor of English State University of New York-Cortland

"This wonderfully comprehensive, smartly informed book offers a penetrating literary and dramatic analysis of the play; abundant, richly informed background materials ranging from Ovid and Chaucer to Renaissance poetry and art; an illuminating history of performance with vivid descriptions of staging from Elizabethan times to the present; and a splendid survey of such controversies dramatized in the play as teen deviance, tribal hostility, and sexual revolution. It will equip instructors from high school to advanced college levels with topics for productive discussion and debate."-William J. Kennedy Professor of Comparative Literature Cornell University

?Highly Recommended.?-Reference for Students -- GaleGroup.com Reviews

?Highly Recommended.??Reference for Students -- GaleGroup.com Reviews

"Highly Recommended."-Reference for Students -- GaleGroup.com Reviews