Romeo and Juliet

Biography of William Shakespeare

Summary of Romeo and Juliet

Key passages in Romeo and Juliet

List of characters in Romeo and Juliet

Criticism through the ages

Romeo and Juliet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

"To the reader," from The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet / Arthur Brooke 1562

From the Speculum Mundi / John Swan 1635

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1662

From The Conquest of Granada, second part, Defence of the Epilogue / John Dryden 1672

"Prologue," from History and Fall of Caius Marius / Thomas Otway 1680

Romeo and Juliet in the eighteenth century

From Hamburgische Dramaturgie / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1767

From Notes on Shakespear's Plays / Samuel Johnson 1768

From "Shakespear," in A Complete History of the Stage / Charles Dibdin 1794

Romeo and Juliet in the nineteenth century

From "Criticisms on Shakspeare's tragedies," from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm Schlegel 1809

From "Romeo and Juliet," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817

From "Romeo and Juliet," from Shakespeare with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1818

"Juliet," from Shakespeare's Heroines : Characteristics of Women : Moral, Poetical and Historical / Anna Jameson 1832

From "The first and second tragedy : Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet" from Shakespeare : A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 1872

"Shakespeare as dramatist," from Five Lectures on Shakespeare / Bernhard ten Brink 1895

"Shakespeare 'Italianate' : Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice," from Shakespeare and His Predecessors / Frederick S. Boas 1896

Romeo and Juliet in the twentieth century

"Juliet's nurse," from Characters from Shakespeare / Walter de la Mare 1902

"Pure and impure poetry," from Kenyon Review / Robert Penn Warren 1943

"Romeo and Juliet : from The meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951

"Form and formality in Romeo and Juliet," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Harry Levin 1960

"Romeo and Juliet," from The Shakespearean Imagination / Norman N. Holland 1964

"Romeo and Juliet," from Shakespeare : The Pattern in His Carpet / Francis Fergusson 1970

"Romeo and Juliet : comedy into tragedy," from Essays in Criticism / Susan Snyder 1970

"The height," from Tragic Vision in Romeo and Juliet / James H. Seward 1973

"Romeo and Juliet," from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare / Northrop Frye 1986

"Introduction," from Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom 1986

"Romeo and Juliet," from Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos / Thomas McAlindon 1991

"The ambiguities of Romeo and Juliet," from Everybody's Shakespeare : Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies / Maynard Mack 1993

"Introduction," from Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Guides) / Harold Bloom 1996

Romeo and Juliet in the twenty-first century

"Romeo and Juliet : an innovative tragedy," from Shakespeare : The Tragedies / John Russell Brown 2001

"Motion and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet," from Philosophy and Literature / Daryl W. Palmer 2006

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.