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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: 
William Shakespeare; Hannah August; Francis X. Conor; Emma Smith
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  • Provides a fresh analysis of one of Shakespeare's most famous and enduring works
  • The introduction examines in particular the play's performance history and presents a new interpretation that veers away from its perception as a core text of heterosexual love
  • Hannah August challenges Romeo and Juliet's catergorisation as a heteronormative, archetypical "love story" by studying gender identities within the play and the queer history of its performance, from the sixteenth century to today
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical apparatus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems

   
'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'

   
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of heterosexual romantic love, proving that at multiple points throughout the play's four-hundred-years-plus stage history, Verona has been more queer than the prevailing view of Romeo and Juliet as a core text of heterosexual love might lead us to believe. It includes a substantial section which addresses the play's early modern production and reception history in both print and performance, as well as providing an overview of later performance traditions drawing on up-to-date examples of key productions.
  
The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work.
 

Index: 

General Editors' Preface to The New Oxford Shakespeare
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of William Shakespeare
   

ROMEO AND JULIET

About the author: 

William Shakespeare
Edited by Hannah August, Senior Lecturer, Massey University, Francis X. Conor, Associate Professor of English, Wichita State University, and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
    
Hannah August is Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. She holds a UPhD and MA from King's College London and undergraduate degrees from the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the author of Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (2022) and several book chapters and articles on the history of reading early modern drama.
   
Francis X. Conor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192866363

Author: 
William Shakespeare; Hannah August; Francis X. Conor; Emma Smith
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
196 x 129 mm
Pub date
Apr 2024
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare