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"Romeo and Juliet"
Sasha Roberts
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This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare’s most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation – read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice. Drawing upon recent criticism on history and literature, and the rarely-discussed work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women critics, Sasha Roberts presents new readings of Romeo and Juliet and its early modern cultural context. Concisely-argued chapters address a wide range of themes – including rival texts, body politics, ethnic identity, adolescence, sexuality, masculinity, relations between women, family dynamics, ritual behaviour, language, bawdy, and the commodification of romantic love – ... Read more
This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare’s most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation – read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice. Drawing upon recent criticism on history and literature, and the rarely-discussed work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women critics, Sasha Roberts presents new readings of Romeo and Juliet and its early modern cultural context. Concisely-argued chapters address a wide range of themes – including rival texts, body politics, ethnic identity, adolescence, sexuality, masculinity, relations between women, family dynamics, ritual behaviour, language, bawdy, and the commodification of romantic love – ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308127
SKU
V9780746308127
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About Sasha Roberts
Sasha Roberts is Research Fellow at Roehampton Institute London. She has taught Shakespeare to undergraduates in England and the USA and has lectured widely on Shakespeare and Renaissance Culture in the United Kingdom, Europe and America. She has published articles on Shakespeare and English Renaissance literature and art, and in 1996 jointly-edited a major new anthology of women’s Shakespeare criticism, ... Read more
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