Romeo and Juliet
17 Feb, 2022
820 English and Old English literatures
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young lovers from their rival houses, but not how Shakespeare would tell it and, with his poetry and plotting, he created a work so powerful and timeless that his play has shaped the way we talk of love, especially young love, ever since.
Guests
- Helen Hackett
3 episodes
Professor of English Literature at University College London -
Paul Prescott No other episodes
Professor of English and Theatre at the University of California Merced - Emma Smith
5 episodes
Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford
Reading list
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Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing
Catherine Belsey (Bloomsbury, 2014) Google Books → -
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
Helen Hackett (Yale University Press, 2022) Google Books → -
Shakespeare in Production: Romeo and Juliet
James N. Loehlin (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Claire McEachern (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Google Books → -
Romeo and Juliet: Arden Performance Editions
Paul Menzer (ed) (Bloomsbury, 2017) -
William Shakespeare: 'Romeo and Juliet', Writers and Their Work
Sasha Roberts (Northcote House/British Council, 1998) Google Books → -
The Shakespeare Handbooks: Romeo and Juliet
Ed Rocklin (Red Globe Press, 2010) Google Books → -
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare (ed. Rene Weis) (Bloomsbury, 2012) Google Books → -
Romeo and Juliet: Folger Shakespeare Library
William Shakespeare (eds. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine) (Simon & Schuster, 2011) Google Books → -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
Emma Smith (Pelican, 2019) Google Books → -
Shakespeare and World Cinema
Mark Thornton Burnett (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Google Books → -
Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction
Stanley Wells (Oxford University Press, 2017) Google Books →
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