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Index
Cover
Title page
Author biography
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
General editors’ preface
Preface
Introduction
Writing love
‘All the daughters of my father’s house’
Love’s young sweet song: ‘an excellent conceited tragedy’
Love and literary form
Time’s winged chariot
The dates of first performance and publication
Lord Hunsdon’s servants and Will Kemp at the Curtain (1596–7?)
Earth tremors and thirteen-year-old children
Nashe’s Have With You to Saffron Walden (1596) and Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sources
Brooke’s Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
Tybalt, Mercutio and Paris
Performing love
From London (c. 1596) and Cambridge (c. 1598–1601) to Douai (1694–5)
From Garrick (1748) to Berlioz (1839) and Cushman (1845)
From Gounod (1867) and Tchaikovsky (1870/80) to Gielgud and Prokofiev (1935)
From West Side Story (1957) to Old Pronunciation Shakespeare (2004)
The age of Zeffirelli (1960–8)
Bogdanov and Luhrmann: from Alfa Romeo to Clockwork Orange Shakespeare and beyond (1986–)
The texts: Q1 (1597) and Q2 (1599)
Nurse’s italics and Capulet’s Wife’s speech prefixes
Shakespeare’s handwriting and what it has left us
Second thoughts: Queen Mab and others
From Q1 to Q2
Q1’s stage directions: a record of performance or ‘literary’ ornaments?
Editorial procedures
ROMEO AND JULIET
The Prologue
Scene 1.1
Scene 1.2
Scene 1.3
Scene 1.4
Scene 1.5
Scene 2.0
Scene 2.1
Scene 2.2
Scene 2.3
Scene 2.4
Scene 2.5
Scene 2.6
Scene 3.1
Scene 3.2
Scene 3.3
Scene 3.4
Scene 3.5
Scene 4.1
Scene 4.2
Scene 4.3
Scene 4.4
Scene 4.5
Scene 5.1
Scene 5.2
Scene 5.3
1 Q1 and Q4 readings
Appendices
2 Q1 Romeo and Juliet
3 Rhyme
4 Casting and doubling
Abbreviations and references
Abbreviations used in notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works cited or used
eCopyright
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