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Romeo and Juliet in European cultures
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With its roots deep in ancient narrative and in various reworkings from the late medieval and early modern period, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has left a lasting trace on modern European culture...
With its roots deep in ancient narrative and in various reworkings from the late medieval and early modern period, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has left a lasting trace on modern European culture. This volume aims to chart the main outlines of this reception process in the broadest sense.
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- edited by Juan F. Cerda, Dirk Delabastita, Keith Gregor
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789027209122, 902720912X, 9027209111, 9027264783
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Intro -- Romeo and Juliet in European Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: European households, alike in dignity? -- Brexit but no Shexit -- Universality and topicality -- Language(s) -- Ways into Europe -- The materiality and intermediality of the play's afterlife -- Past, present, future -- Acknowledgements -- A note on the timeline -- References -- Chapter 1. Heavenly eloquence: Romeo and Juliet and linguistic conflict -- Introduction -- Saskatoon -- Fribourg/Freiburg -- Helsinki/Helsingfors -- Liège -- Tübingen/Petrosadovsk -- Kiew/Munich -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2. Juliet's balcony: The balcony scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet across cultures and media -- Cuban gambit and material culture -- Text and tourism -- Liminality and centrality -- Art history -- Cinema -- Music, opera and ballet -- The balcony vanishing -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Romeo and Juliet in Germany: From the English actors to Goethe -- Introduction -- Englische Comödianten (English actors) -- The Enlightenment -- Sturm und Drang -- Toward Romanticism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Romeo and Juliet on the French stage: From the early versions to the English production at the Odéon Theatre in 1827 -- Introduction -- Diverging early versions -- The beginnings of Romanticism -- The English season -- References -- Chapter 5. Romeo and Juliet in Spain: The neoclassical versions -- Romeo and Juliet in Spanish culture -- Solís's Julia y Romeo -- García Suelto's Romeo y Julieta -- Julieta y Romeo, the opera -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Judaisation in the first Hebrew translation of Romeo and Juliet -- Introduction -- Names -- Christian holidays and rituals -- Christian establishments -- Oaths and expressions
- Mythological figures -- Foreign language -- Shibbuṣ -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Giulietta e Romeo: From early nineteenth-century Italian adaptations to Ernesto Rossi's Shakespearean debut (1869) -- Enter the Bard. Shakespeare in nineteenth-century Italy -- Innocence, love and fate: Romeo and Juliet as a dramatic subject in early nineteenth-century Italian theatre -- "A splendid piece of retrogression": Ernesto Rossi's Romeo and Juliet -- References -- Chapter 8. Star-crossed lovers in Sweden -- Introduction -- A sluggish start -- 1776: A bourgeois tragedy, a moral debate, and the onslaught of Romanticism -- 1850: Carl August Hagberg, and the star-crossed lovers overtaken -- A second spring -- Playing with the play: Old age, gender-bending, feuds, Freud, and what's in a name? -- References -- Chapter 9. Romeo and Juliet - The East Side Story: A note on Romania -- Prologue -- "The traffic of our stage" and page (Prologue, 12) -- "Ancient grudge" (Prologue, 3) -- "Death-marked love" - in slow motion (Prologue, 9) -- "Dressing old words new" (Sonnets 76) -- Amor mortem vincit -- "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (5.3.309-310) -- References -- Appendix. Post-1989 Romanian productions of Romeo and Ju liet -- Chapter 10. "Unveiling" Romeo and Juliet in Spain: Translation, performance and censorship -- A poetic and chaste love story in the eyes of Francoism -- "What's in a name?" Just a name, only a name … -- The tragedy becomes a comedy -- And then came the destape -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Romeo and Juliet in British culture: In fresh performance by The Royal Shakespeare Company -- Introduction -- "Fair Verona" -- "Two households" -- "Ghostly sire, gallant spirit" -- "Star-cross'd lovers" -- "Towards catastrophe" -- References
- Chapter 12. A festival blockbuster: Romeo and Juliet at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Avignon Off -- Romeo and Juliet as a "popular" play -- The star-crossed lovers in Edinburgh and Avignon -- Romeo and Juliet for all time -- Parody and burlesque -- From glam rock to the Italian roots -- Amateurs and professionals -- "Essence" and adaptability -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13. What's in a stamp?: Romeo and Juliet in the postal system of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Introduction: Stamps as commemorative acts -- Romeo and Juliet on stamps -- The beginnings -- Quatercentenary stamps -- Further ramifications beyond Europe in the 1970s and 1980s -- Disneyfication -- From the 1990s to the present -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14. "In fair [Europe], where we lay our scene": Romeo and Juliet, Europe and digital cultures -- Introduction -- Travel: "In fair Verona" -- Wunderkabinett -- News: "Is thy news good, or bad? Answer to that" -- References -- Chapter 15. A selective timeline of Romeo and Juliet in European culture -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Index