Romeo and Juliet
The New Oxford Shakespeare
$16.73
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2025
Summary
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play’s ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of heterosexual romantic love, proving that at multiple points throughout the play’s four-hundred-years-plu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192866363 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192866362 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Hannah August, Emma Smith, Francis X. Connor |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
William Shakespeare
Hannah August is Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. She holds a PhD and MA from King’s College London and undergraduate degrees from the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the author of Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (2022) and several book chapters and articles on the history of reading early modern drama.
Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.
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