Shakespearean Criticism Romeo and Juliet: Critical Essays, (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1993. This collection brings together scholarship relating to the language, performance, and impact of the play. Ordered in three parts, the chapters cover analysis, reviews and interpretation from a wide ranging array of sources, and looks at the story as a product of Elizabethan Culture, considering the attitude to the friar, to morality and suicide, the stars and fate, and gender differences.