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Publishing House: Yilin Publishing House

ISBN：9787544768382

Edition: 1

Packing: paperback

Format: 16

Published on: May 1, 2017

Price: 45.00

Paper: light paper

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Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy created by Shakespeare. When he was alive, this tragedy was as popular as Hamlet. This play belongs to a traditional love tragedy. The plot originates from Italian folk stories. Shakespeare borrowed the original story and added new branch characters to enrich the plot. The edition of Oxford English classics contains the first Yi quarto published in 1597 and the second edition corrected and closer to Shakespeares original manuscript. Jill l L. Levenson, a Shakespeare scholar at the University of Toronto, wrote guidance and notes to comprehensively analyze this world-famous love tragedy.

Catalog

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Romeo and Juliet Narrative before Shakespeare

Myth

Novella

‘Romeo and Juliet’: The Play

Love, Death, and Adolescence

Patriarchy

Style and Genre

(a) Rhetoric

(b) Tragedy, Comedy, Sonnet

Performance History

Initial Staging

Restoration to the Late Twentieth Century

Date(s)

The Mobile Text

Quarto 1 (1597)

Quarto 2 (1599) and its Derivatives

Quarto 1 and Quarto 2: Provenance

Editorial Procedures

Abbreviations and References

THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE

TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

AN EXCELLENT CONCEITED TRAGEDY OF

ROMEO AND JULIET (q1)

Index

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In Verona, Italy, Montague and Capulet formed a feud, but their children Romeo and Juliet fell in love. Due to the family struggle, Romeo killed Juliets cousin tilbert and was exiled. Juliet was married by her parents. They planned to escape together, but they got the wrong news and finally died one after another.

About the author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a great playwright and poet in the British Renaissance. He was born in Stratford, Warwickshire, England on April 23, 1564 and died on May 3, 1616 (April 23 in the Julian calendar). April 23 is the anniversary of Shakespeares death every year. In 1995, it was designated as "world reading day" by UNESCO. He is an outstanding dramatist and poet in the British Renaissance and a master of humanistic literature in the Renaissance. His representative works include four tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, four comedies the twelfth night, a midsummer nights dream, the winnis merchant, making trouble with nothing, historical dramas Henry IV, Henry VI and Richard II Wait. He also wrote 154 sonnets and three or four long poems. He is "the father of English drama", Ben? Jones called him "the soul of the times" and Marx called him "one of the human Zui great geniuses". He was endowed with "Zeus on Mount Olympus of human literature".