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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Matt Simpson
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In his close study of Romeo and Juliet Matt Simpson takes up the gauntlet thrown down by critic John Wain who once dismissively asserted that the play posed no questions.
Starting with a seemingly simple one - what's in a name? - Matt Simpson finds, in the ambivalences out of which the play is constructed, a great number of highly relevant questions that we can and should ask or, rather that the play itself is urgently asking. Romeo and Juliet raises questions about secrecy, young love, comradeship, lust, the incompetence of the older generation, honour, death, suicide and good and evil - themes made more resonant by Shakespeare's superb poetry.
104 pages
ISBN: 978-1-906075-17-0
Greenwich Exchange Category: Student Guides
Series: Student Guide
Other books by Matt Simpson published by Greenwich Exchange:
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream