The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

by Shakespeare, William; Kliman, Bernice W.; Magnus, Laury; Lake, James H.

• ISBN13: 9781585101634
• ISBN10: 158510163X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Summary

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

Author Biography

Bernice W. Kliman is Professor Emeritus of English at Nassau Community College, State University of New York. She has authored numerous books on Shakespeare include books on Macbeth in performance, Hamlet, and co-edited Latin American Shakespeares. She is co-editor of the New Variorum Hamlet Project. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. Laury Magnus is Professor of Humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York. Her books include a study of poetic repetition in early twentieth-century British and American poetry and a co-translation and introduction to Ivan Goncharov’s nineteenth-century Russian novel, The Precipice. Her articles have appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Assays,Language and Style, and, on Shakespeare, in Literature/Film Quarterly, Connotations, and College Literature. She is also a frequent contributor to The Shakespeare Newsletter and an Associate Member of the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar.