Juliet: the life and afterlives of Shakespeare's first tragic heroine

The enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet -- a history "as vital and provocative as the character herself" (Literary Review). Romeo and Juliet may be the greatest love story ever told, but who is Juliet? Demure ingénue? Or dangerous Mediterranean madwoman? From tear...

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1. Verfasser: Duncan, Sophie 1987- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Seal Press 2023
Ausgabe:First US edition
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Zusammenfassung:The enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet -- a history "as vital and provocative as the character herself" (Literary Review). Romeo and Juliet may be the greatest love story ever told, but who is Juliet? Demure ingénue? Or dangerous Mediterranean madwoman? From tearstained copies of the First Folio to Civil War-era fanfiction, Shakespeare's star-crossed heroine has long captured our collective imagination. Juliet is her story, traced across continents through four centuries of history, theatre, and film. As Oxford Shakespeare scholar Sophie Duncan reveals, Juliet's legacy stretches beyond her literary lifespan into a cultural afterlife ranging from enslaved African girls in the British Caribbean to the real-life Juliets of sectarian violence in Bosnia and Belfast. She argues that our dangerous obsession with the beautiful dead teenager and Juliet's meteoric rise as a defiant sexual icon have come to define the Western ideal of romance. Wry and inventive, Juliet is a tribute to fiction's most famous teenage girl who died young, but who lives forever
Beschreibung:"First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK Company."--Title page verso
Published in Great Britain, with 8 pages of illustrations, as: Searching for Juliet : the lives and deaths of Shakespeare's first tragic heroine. London : Sceptre, 2023
Beschreibung:308 Seiten Porträt 25 cm
ISBN:9781541600324

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