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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964195503321

Autore

Shakespeare William <1564-1616.>

Titolo

Romeo and Juliet / / William Shakespeare ; fully annotated, with an introduction, by Burton Raffel ; with an essay by Harold Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786611728977

9781281728975

1281728977

9780300138283

0300138288

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 222 p.)

Collana

The annotated Shakespeare

Altri autori (Persone)

BloomHarold

RaffelBurton

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Conflict of generations

Vendetta

Youth

Verona (Italy) Drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- About This Book -- Introduction -- Some Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage -- Act 1 -- Act 2 -- Act 3 -- Act 4 -- Act 5 -- An Essay by Harold Bloom -- Further Reading -- Finding List

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. The new edition is a rich resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. This version of Romeo and Juliet is unparalleled for its



thoroughness and adherence to sound linguistic principles. In his introduction, Raffel provides historical and social contexts that increase the reader's understanding of the play. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Romeo and Juliet is unmatched in the world's literature "as a vision of an uncompromising love that perishes of its own idealism and intensity."