Presents the text of Shakespeare's drama about Romeo and Juliet, two young people whose love is doomed by their warring families, and includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective on the play, and other reference tools.
Presents a comprehensive guide that describes the creation, production, and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater and examines the music, actors, staging, and issues of class and gender.
Presents nineteen essays on plays, themes, and genres from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, discussing such writers as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare.
Presents thirty-five essays, each examining a theme as it is treated in several of Shakespeare's plays; examples include fate, fathers and daughters, male friendship, and the tragic flaw.