Romeo and Juliet: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

by William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan

Overview

This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text.

By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars, and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day.

The Norton Critical Edition includes:
· Introductory materials and explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous images.
· Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Seidler, and Thomas Otway, among others.
· Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Niamh Cusack, David Tennant, and Courtney Lehmann.
· A Selected Bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393926262
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/14/2016
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Gordon McMullan (D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of English at King’s College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death and The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher, and editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII and the Norton Critical Edition of 1 Henry IV. He is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including Late Style and Its Discontents, Women Making Shakespeare, Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, and In Arden: Editing Shakespeare.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom