Romeo and Juliet

Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play’s significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging. For this updated edition Thomas Moisan has added a new section to the Introduction which takes account of the number of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented.

• Updated edition of a text which has been highly popular in the series since 1984 • Substantial additional section to the Introduction • Two new production photographs and a revised Reading List

Introduction, with new section on recent developments in criticism and production by Thomas Moisan; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendix: Brooke’s Romeus; Reading list.

‘… beautifully edited … and presented’ The Daily Telegraph