《Romeo and Juliet(Shakespeare,Pelican)》

by William Shakespeare (Author),A. R. Braunmuller (Editor),Stephen Orgel (Editor),Peter Holland (Introduction)

Product details

Format Paperback | 132 pages

Dimensions 129 x 197 x 10mm | 138g

Publication date 31 Mar 2016

PublisherPenguin Putnam Inc

Imprint Penguin USA

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

ISBN13 9780143128571

Product Description

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design in time for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.

This edition ofRomeo and Julietis edited with an introduction by Peter Holland.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Review

"We can more easily decide between Shakespear and any other author, than between him and himself. Shall we quote any more passages to shew his genius or the beauty of Romeo and Juliet? At that rate, we might quote the whole."

About the Author

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has edited Ben Johnson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, and many other classics. His books includeImagining Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003),The Authentic Shakespeare (Routledge, 2011),Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge University Press, 1996) andThe Illusion of Power (University of California Press, 1992).A. R. Braunmuller is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor ofThe New Cambridge Shakespeare. Peter Holland was Director of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at The University of Birmingham. He is now McMeel Professor of Shakespeare at Notre Dame University.