Full title: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in performance : traditions and departures / Katherine L. Wright.

Author/creator: Wright, Katherine L.

Call Numbers: Y822.33/154

Record Identifier: 74VvZAJwByJd

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: vi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm., Ch. I. On Shakespeare's Stage. I. The Romeo of Richard Burbage. II. The Boy Actor's Juliet. III. The Mercutio of Thomas Pope -- Ch. II. On the Restoraion and Eighteenth-Century Stage. I. The Romeos of David Garrick and Spranger Barry. II. The Juliets of Susannah Cibber and George Anne Bellamy. III. The Mercutios of Charles Macklin and Henry Woodward -- Ch. III. On the Nineteenth-Century Stage. I. The Romeo of Johnston Forbes-Robertson. II. The Juliet of Adelaide Neilson. III. The Mercutio of Charles Kemble -- Ch. IV. On the Twentieth-Century Stage. I. The Romeos of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. II. The Juliet of Peggy Ashcroft. III. Mercutio in the Twentieth Century.

Publishers: Lewiston : Mellen University Press, c1997.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-282) and index.

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DDC: 822.33

MMS ID: 991004697589702626