The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare ; Daniel Fischlin, general editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Fischlin, Daniel, editor of series.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare made in Canada

Language:

English

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Don Mills, ON : OUP Canada, 2013.

Summary:

Overpowering adolescent passion at odds with a troubled adult world: this ancient tale was never more grippingly told than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where two youths come together in a love that is both transformative and death-marked. The society around them lacks flexibility, failing to govern this destabilizing energy. Shakespeare scholar Jill L. Levenson shows how the play's treatment of gender, class, sexuality, and political fragmentation has found rich resonance in Canada. From ballet adaptations to Ann-Marie MacDonald's award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), we continue to be fascinated by Romeo and Juliet's compelling exploration of tragic passion and violence. Canada has been doing Shakespeare for over 150 years. From sumptuous Hamlet productions at Stratford to First Nations adaptations of The Tempest to bilingual stagings of Romeo and Juliet, this country's encounter with Shakespeare has been marked by imagination, ingenuity, and originality, not to mention a wholesale lack of fear. For over a decade the University of Guelph has been researching Canadian adaptations of Shakespeare. Shakespeare Made in Canada draws from this rich world-class archival material to create the first-ever editions of Shakespeare specifically for students and general readers in Canada. Each edition is modern, clear, and accessible, and includes: rigorous new editions of playtexts, new notes that are engaging, concise, and road-tested by a team of students and scholars, an introduction that balances the best available scholarship with production history in Canada, a short, no-holds-barred preface by a prominent Canadian, an introduction by a world-class Shakespeare scholar, ten tips for reading Shakespeare, production artwork and overall presentations that take us from the cultural highs to the unbridled lows Book jacket.

Contents:

"Dear Account": The Romeo and Juliet Story from Myth to the National Ballet of Canada / Jill L. Levenson Levenson, Jill L. 1

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 29.

Notes:

A play.

ISBN:

9780199009961

0199009961

OCLC:

854496340