基本説明
This collection of contemporary essays raises topical debates about the nature of love conventions.
Full Description
As one of the world's greatest love stories Romeo and Juliet continues to excite new theatre-goers, readers and film-goers. Its depiction of tragic lovers strikes a chord in each generation of young people, and seems to speak in their own idiom. As such, it reflects, and allows us to analyse, changing attitudes to sex in a violent world. This collection of contemporary essays raises topical debates about the nature of love conventions, as well as offering new insights into Shakespeare's text.
Contents
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- IntroductionThing Called Love?; R.S. White.- 'Death-marked love': Desire and Presence in Romeo and Juliet; L. Davis.- The Name of the Rose in Romeo and Juliet; C. Belsey.- Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple; J. Kristeva.- The Ideology of Romantic Love: The Case of Romeo and Juliet; D. C. Callaghan.- 'The Murdering Word'; K. Ryan.- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet; B. Hodgdon.- The Servants; B. Brecht.- Romeo and Juliet: The Nurse's Story; B. Everett.- Eloquence and Liminality: Glossing Mercutio's Speech Acts; J. A. Porter.- Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs; J. Goldberg.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.
