...F. E. Bowman The Yale Shakespeare: “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet . Edited by Hosley Richard . Pp. viii , 174 . Measure for Measure . Edited by Harding David . Pp. viii , 131 . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1954 . $1.50 each. Copyright © 1955 by Duke...

...Philip J. Traci Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Suggestions About the Bawdry in Romeo and Juliet Philip J. Traci While critics and students of Romeo and Juliet have long noted the bawdy and highly erotic tone, too few have questioned its significance. By analyzing some...

...Joseph A. Porter Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Joseph A. Porter Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality Relations between Marlowe and Shake­ speare, particularly as manifested in the character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, serve as an index...

..., and their absurdity has been commented on by romanticist as 202 The South Atlantic Quarterly well as classicist. In view of this fact, we may well inquire concerning some of the better known situations that have moved, or at least are reported as having moved, the risibilities of our ancestors. A Romeo or Richard who...

... trustworthy and otherwise. What could have been funnier, for instance, than the provincial Tybalt, a barn-spouting hero, who, writes Francis Gentle­ man, was so realistic as the result of liquor and a love of his art that he refused utterly to be defeated and was driving the exhausted Romeo from the stage...

... to giv­ ing the first American performance of The Merchant of Venice, they also offered Richard III, King Lear, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. The premiere American performance of King Lear, the fourth Shakespearean play presented in America, was probably given at New York on January 14, 1754. One cannot...

... doctor] dressed up a Midshipman as an angel to undeceive him on this head but the scheme had no effect. The angel was not a good one or did not know his part. On Robert Coates, a wealthy and eccentric amateur actor, who played Romeo one summer at Bath: He would have his dress fit very tight so that he...

.... Fuller calls attention to a Dutch play which seems to throw new light on the composition of Romeo and Juliette. It has long been thought that Shak­ spere based his dramatic version of the popular story partly on a prose translation inPaynter s Palace of Pleasure of Boisteau s French rendering...

... of A Midsummer Night s Dream 401 sible exceptions of snatches from Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In The Tempest the invisible world is essentially hostile, held at bay only by Prospero s magic. The moral impera­ tives of the ghost in Hamlet, the sinister and problematical utter­ ances...

... has profited from and added to various observations made by previous Christian interpreters of these plays. In other chapters, however, such as those on Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Prince Hal of the Henry plays, his analysis becomes warped by a loose impressionism, and those on Midsummer...

.... In romantic tragedies of a Romeo and Juliet type, on the other hand, the family tends to be negatively construed as some­ thing which smothers a more positive future identified with the star-crossed lovers who defy parental will. In domestic tragedy, the stage-world is usually narrowed and limited...

...; it is overburdened and collapses. For example, in the opening scenes Melville s model is Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet. Pierre in love is Romeo in love; Romeo walks the streets of an American village instead of Verona. The hyperbolic language of Elizabethan love poetry is transplanted to nineteenth-century Amer­...

... be to loathe her. {Othello, III, iii, 263-268) Hamlet s Mad Soliloquy 63 Other soliloquizers who make like references to their personal situations are Armado (Love s Labor s Lost, I, ii, 172-191), Berowne (Love s Labor s Lost, IV, iii, 1-21), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet, IV, iii, 14-58), Philip the Bastard (King...

.... And, perhaps, this is all that we should ask. After all, we cannot expect Mr. Shumaker to control the form; his job is to analyze and classify, and he does that with considerable perspicacity. w. H. IRVING The Yale Shakespeare: "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Richard Hosley. Pp. viii, 174. Measure...

... as fact fancies that the bibliographer would be terri­ fied to invent. He is incorrect in his own work, and he disregards the most recent published material on, for example, Romeo and Juliet. His conclusions are as firmly established as Iago s proofs and are such stuff as dreams are made on. DUKE...

... an Ovidian story of young lovers, parental tyranny, secret meetings, and misunderstanding resulting in double suicide, a plot not unlike that of Romeo and Juliet, the death scene of which Shakespeare may be bur- 6. The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, ed. W. E. Henley (1903; rpt. New York, 1967), II, 163...

... perspicacity. w. H. IRVING The Yale Shakespeare: "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Richard Hosley. Pp. viii, 174. Measure for Measure. Edited by David Harding. Pp. viii, 131. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. $1.50 each. Under the general editorship of Helge Kokeritz and Charles T. Prouty...

.... Professor Craig then proceeds to throw his own physic to the dogs and to assume as fact fancies that the bibliographer would be terri­ fied to invent. He is incorrect in his own work, and he disregards the most recent published material on, for example, Romeo and Juliet. His conclusions are as firmly...

... the most recent published material on, for example, Romeo and Juliet. His conclusions are as firmly established as Iago s proofs and are such stuff as dreams are made on. DUKE UNIVERSITY GEORGE W. WILLIAMS Renaissance Papers 1958, 1959, 1960. Editor George Walton Wil­ liams, Assistant Editor Peter G...

... Juliet at Portsmouth about 1750, an admiring tar kept the house in a roar by the various expressions of his concern and admiration, perhaps the most original of which was his words at Mrs. Baddeley s query, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Look ahead, my dear girl, responded the admirer...