Romeo and Juliet : texts and contexts /

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Author / Creator:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Imprint:Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2003.
Description:xvi, 475 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Bedford Shakespeare series
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1997. Bedford Books.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4906235
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Other authors / contributors:Callaghan, Dympna.
ISBN:0312191928
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-457) and index
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet / Edited by David Bevington
  • Pt. 2. Cultural contexts
  • 1. Italy
  • The idea of Italy for Shakespeare's English audience
  • From His ten years travel / Fynes Moryson
  • From The schoolmaster / Roger Ascham
  • From The unfortunate traveler, or the life of Jack Wilton / Thomas Nashe
  • From The history of Italy / William Thomas
  • From A discovery of the great subtlety and wonderful wisdom of the Italians / G. B. A. F.
  • From A description of the author's journey from Trento to London / Andreas Franciscus
  • 2. Between men
  • Relationships between men
  • From The affectionate shepherd / Richard Barnfield
  • From His practice / Vincentio Saviolo
  • From Paradoxes of defense / George Silver
  • Keeping the peace
  • Proclamation enforcing statutes of apparel / Queen Elizabeth I
  • Proclamation prohibiting unlawful assembly under martial law / Queen Elizabeth I
  • Proclamation enforcing earlier proclamation against handguns / Queen Elizabeth I
  • Proclamation prohibiting the publishing of any reports or writing of duels / King James I
  • Report to Lord Burghley / William Fleetwood
  • 3. Loving and marrying
  • From A work worth the reading / Charles Gibbon
  • From A Bartholomew fairing for parents / John Stockwood
  • From Conjugal counsel : or, seasonable advice, both to unmarried, and married persons / Thomas Hilder
  • From A treatise of spousals / Henry Swinburne
  • Letter to Sir George More / John Donne
  • From The canzoniere / Francesco Petrarch
  • Sonnet 9 / Philip Sidney
  • Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare
  • Solemnization of matrimony
  • 4. Family life
  • A prayer of children for their parents / Richard Day
  • Correspondence of the Bagot family
  • Letter to Richard Broughton / Richard Bagot
  • Letter to Richard Bagot esquire / John Lumley
  • Letter to Richard Bagot / Thomas Rugeley
  • Letter to Henry Skipwith / Walter Bagot
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Richard Rugeley
  • Letter to an unidentified man / Walter Bagot
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Edmund Waring
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / John Ferrers
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Jane Skipwith
  • Letter to Lewes Bagot / Jane Skipwith
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Jane Skipwith
  • Letter to Henry Skipwith / Walter Bagot
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Lewes Bagot
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Robert Broughton
  • Letter to Walter Bagot / Elinor Cave
  • Letter to Richard Bagot / Thomas Cokayne
  • Letter to Christopher Brooke / Walter Bagot
  • Letter to Richard Bagot / Martin Heton
  • Mothering
  • From The countess of Lincoln's nursery / Elizabeth (Knyvett) Clinton
  • From A preparative to marriage / Henry Smith
  • From The diary of the Lady Anne Clifford / Anne Clifford
  • From Delights for ladies to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories / Hugh Platt
  • 5. Friars
  • From The life of the most holy father St. Francis / St. Bonaventure
  • From Acts and monuments / John Foxe
  • From The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser
  • 6. Death and the stars
  • Love and death
  • From Erotomania / Jacques Ferrand
  • From An act concerning physicians and Royal College of Physicians of London, from Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
  • From Pharmacopoeia Londinensis / Nicholas Culpeper
  • A prayer to be said at our going into bed and a prayer when we be ready to sleep / Richard Day
  • Astrology
  • Funerals and monuments
  • The order for the burial of the dead
  • Proclamation prohibiting destruction of church monuments / Queen Elizabeth I
  • From An homily against apparel of idolatry and superfluous decking of churches / John Jewel.