Romeo and Juliet / edited by R.S. White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, R. S., 1948-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New casebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This imaginative selection of critical essays provides a range of contemporary approaches from psychoanalytical to cultural materialist and film theory. They demonstrate the fascinating plurality of recent critical approaches, and illuminate important aspects of the play.

Contents:

Introduction: What is this thing called love? / R. S. White 1

1. 'Death-marked love': Desire and Presence in Romeo and Juliet / Lloyd Davis 28

2. The Name of the Rose in Romeo and Juliet / Catherine Belsey 47

3. Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple [Le couple amour-haine selon Romeo et Juliette] / Julia Kristeva 68

4. The Ideology of Romantic Love: The Case of Romeo and Juliet / Dympna C. Callaghan 85

5. 'The Murdering Word' / Kiernan Ryan 116

6. Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Barbara Hodgdon 129

7. The Servants / Bertolt Brecht 147

8. Romeo and Juliet: The Nurse's Story / Barbara Everett 152

9. Eloquence and Liminality: Glossing Mercutio's Speech Acts / Joseph A. Porter 166

10. Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs / Jonathan Goldberg 194.

Notes:

"Contemporary critical essays"--cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.

ISBN:

0333747801

033374781X

OCLC:

45375689