Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2016
Pages: 352
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Publisher: Facts On File Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
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Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Description:
Shakespeare's tragedy about two star-crossed lovers from warring families has stirred audiences and readers alike and inspired other artists for generations. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Romeo and Juliet. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume, including an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of several key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare's time, and more.
Each volume in the Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages contains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard's oeuvre, selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar, Harold Bloom Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare, these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism, from the 17th century to today.. In the process, each volume also charts the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work.
This essential set is unique not only in the range of commentary it provides on each of Shakespeare's greatest works, but also in its emphasis on the greatest critics in our literary tradition including such critics as John Dryden in the 17th century, Samuel Johnson in the 18th century, William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 19th century, A.C. Bradley and William Empson in the 20th century, and many more. Some of the pieces included are full length essays; others are excerpts designed to present a key point.
Target Audience:
Students and academics of English literature.
Contents:
Series Introduction • Introduction by Harold Bloom • Biography of William Shakespeare • Summary of Romeo and Juliet • Key Passages in Romeo and Juliet • List of Characters in Romeo and Juliet
CRITICISM THROUGH THE AGES
Romeo and Juliet in the Seventeenth Century
1562—Arthur Brooke. “To the Reader,” from The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet • 1635—John Swan. From the Speculum Mundi • 1662—Samuel Pepys. From The Diary of Samuel Pepys • 1672—John Dryden. From The Conquest of Granada Second Part. Defence of the Epilogue • 1680— Thomas Otway. “Prologue,” from History and Fall of Caius Marius
Romeo and Juliet in the Eighteenth Century
1767—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. From Hamburgische Dramaturgie • 1768—Samuel Johnson. From Notes on Shakes pear's Plays • 1794—Charles Dibdin. From “Shakespear,” in A Complete History of the Stage
Romeo and Juliet in the Nineteenth Century
1809—August Wilhelm Schlegel. From “Criticisms on Shakspeare's Tragedies,” from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • 1817—William Hazlitt. From ”Romeo and Juliet,” from Characters of Shakespear's Plays • 1818—Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From ”Romeo and Juliet,” from Shakespeare with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage • 1832—Anna Jameson. “Juliet,” from Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical and Historical • 1872—Edward Dowden. From “The First and Second Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet,” from Shakespere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art • 1895—Bernhard ten Brink. “Shakespeare as Dramatist,” from Five Lectures on Shakespeare • 1896—Frederick S. Boas. “Shakespere “Italianate”: Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice,” from Shakespeare and His Predecessors
Romeo and Juliet in the Twentieth Century
1902—Walter de la Mare. “Juliet's Nurse,” from Characters from Shakespeare • 1943—Robert Penn Warren. “Pure and Impure Poetry,” from Kenyon Review • 1951—Harold C. Goddard. “Romeo and Juliet,” from The Meaning of Shakespeare • 1960—Harry Levin. “Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet,” from Shakespeare Quarterly • 1964—Norman N. Holland. ”Romeo and Juliet,” from The Shakespearean Imagination • 1970—Francis Fergusson. “Romeo and Juliet,” from Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet • 1970—Susan Snyder. “Romeo and Juliet: Comedy into Tragedy,” from Essays in Criticism • 1973—James H. Seward. “The Height,” from Tragic Vision in Romeo and Juliet • 1986—Northrop Frye. ”Romeo and Juliet,” from Northrop Frye an Shakespeare • 1986—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) • 1991—Thomas McAlindon. ”Romeo and Juliet,” from Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos • 1993—Maynard Mack. “The Ambiguities of Romeo and Juliet,” from Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflectians Chiefly on the Tragedies • 1996—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Guides)
Romeo and Juliet in the Twenty-first Century
2001—John Russell Brown. “Romeo and Juliet: An Innovative Tragedy,” from Shakespeare: The Tragedies • 2006—Daryl W. Palmer. “Motion and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet,” from Philosophy and Literature
Bibliography • Acknowledgement • Index
About the Series Editor:
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found” (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters” Gold Medal for Criticism.
