Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader

Julia Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

• Series Introduction Romeo and Juliet TimelineIntroduction (Julia Reinhard Lupton,University of California, Irvine, USA)The Critical Backstory (Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA)The State of the Art (Rebeca Helfer, The University of California, Irvine, USA)Traffic of Our Stage: A Performance History of Romeo and Juliet (Ian Munro, The University of California, Irvine, USA)New Directions:How Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Has Helped Us to Understand Ourselves (Paul Kottman, The New School for Social Research, USA)Lord Capulet's Lost Compromise: Editing and the Binary Dynamics of Romeo and Juliet (Robert Watson, UCLA, USA)Romeo and Juliet's Understudies (William West, Northwestern University, USA)Romeo and Juliet in Other Media (Joseph Campana, Rice University, USA)The Names of the Rose: Romeo and Juliet in Italy (Shaul Bassi, University of Venice, Italy)Resources for Teaching (M. Barbara Mello, California State University, Long Beach, USA)BibliographyIndex

I’m very impressed by this series. I think its success lies in part in the general editors’ wise selection of volume editors who are both intellectually open-minded and capable of assembling strong, diverse teams of contributors.