Romeo and Juliet

The Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Edited by Jill L. Levenson

Oxford World's Classics

• A major new edition of one of Shakespeare's best loved and most frequently performed and studied plays.
• Provides clear and comprehensive annotation for the student.
• Unlike all other available editions of the play, this edition offers the Q1 text, the so-called bad quarto in full as well as the familiar Q2 text.
• Illustrated with scenes from film as well as stage versions from different eras.

Romeo and Juliet

The Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Edited by Jill L. Levenson

Oxford World's Classics

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Romeo and Juliet

The Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Edited by Jill L. Levenson

Oxford World's Classics

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Romeo and Juliet

The Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Edited by Jill L. Levenson

Oxford World's Classics

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Romeo & Juliet: the film adaptations

By Jill L. Levensen In its fall preview issue for 2013 (dated 2-9 September), New York magazine lists Romeo and Juliet with other films opening on 11 October 2013, and it comments: "Julian Fellowes (the beloved creator of Downton Abbey) tries to de-Luhrmann-ize this classic." The statement makes two notable points.

Posted on October 18, 2013

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West Side Story, 55 years later

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. A racially charged retelling of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is set in the 'blighted' West Side of 1950s Manhattan, the potent themes of star-crossed love and gang rivalry successfully translated from 16th century Italy to 20th century New York by book-writer Arthur Laurents and lyricist Steven Sondheim.

Posted on September 26, 2012

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