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In his close study of Romeo and Juliet Matt Simpson takes up the gauntlet thrown down by the 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.
ISBN 978-1-906075-17-0
In his close study of Romeo and Juliet Matt Simpson takes up the gauntlet thrown down by the 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.
ISBN 978-1-906075-17-0