Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Bloom, Harold, ed. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. New York: Chelsea House, 2000.

Bradbook, M. C. Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy, 2nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Dusinberre, Juliet. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, reprint edition 2003.

Greenblatt, Stephen. “Introduction to Romeo and Juliet.The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Halio, Jay L., ed. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Texts, Contexts and Interpretations. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1996.

Seward, James H. Tragic Vision in Romeo and Juliet. Washington, D.C.: Consortium Press, 1973.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Time in Romeo and Juliet,” in Shakespeare Quarterly, v.15.4. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1957.

Van Doren, Mark. Shakespeare. New York: Random House, reprint edition 2005.

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