CRITICISM

Burt, Richard. “No Holes Bard: Homonormativity and the Gay and Lesbian Romance with Romeo and Juliet.” In Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital, edited by Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds, pp. 153-86. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Surveys the gay and lesbian performance history of Romeo and Juliet.

Conrad, Peter. “Romeos, Juliets, and Music.” In To Be Continued: Four Stories and Their Survival, pp. 47-93. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Discusses various adaptations of Romeo and Juliet involving the replacement of Shakespeare's words with music.

Goldberg, Jonathan. “Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs.” In Shakespeare's Hand, pp. 271-85. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Maintains that the deaths of Romeo and Juliet serve a social function in the uniting of the two houses and the restoration of social order.

Hagerty, Bill. Review of Romeo & Juliet: The Musical. Hollywood Reporter 376, no. 8 (19-25 November 2002): 21, 80.

Explains why the musical version of Romeo and Juliet—Romeo & Juliet: the Musical—was a big hit in Paris but failed to find an audience in London.

Hartley, Lodwick. “‘Mercy but Murders’: A Note on a Subtheme in Romeo and Juliet.” Papers on English Language & Literature (1965): 259-64.

Analyzes the role of the family feud in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

Herman, Vimala. “Discourse and Time in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.” Language and Literature 8, no. 2 (June 1999): 143-61.

Examines time as represented through various verbal strategies in Romeo and Juliet.

Kilinski, Janusz. “Elements of Neo-Platonism in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 17 (1984): 271-77.

Contends that the relationship between Romeo and Juliet eventually develops into the divine love associated with Neo-Platonism.

McLuskie, Kathleen E. “Shakespeare's ‘Earth-Treading Stars’: The Image of the Masque in Romeo and Juliet.” In Shakespeare Survey 24 (1971): 63-9.

Examines the masque as a device used to introduce Romeo into the Capulet household.

Moisan, Thomas. “Rhetoric and the Rehearsal of Death: The ‘Lamentations’ Scene in Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare Quarterly 34, no. 4 (winter 1983): 389-404.

Addresses the excessive rhetoric associated with the scene in which Juliet, taken for dead, is mourned by her parents and her nurse.

Roberts, Sasha. “Family Dynamics.” In William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, pp. 11-33. Plymouth, England: Northcote House, 1998.

Analyzes the play's complex treatment of relationships between parents and children and husbands and wives.

Stavig, Mark. “Every Thing in Extremity.” In The Forms of Things Unknown: Renaissance Metaphor in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, pp. 59-87. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1995.

Discusses the metaphorical patterns in Romeo and Juliet.

Wells, Robin Headlam. “Neo-Petrarchan Kitsch in Romeo and Juliet.” Modern Language Review 93, no. 4 (October 1998): 913-33.

Explores Shakespeare's use of Petrarchanism as a satiric device in Romeo and Juliet.

Whittier, Gayle. “The Sonnet's Body and the Body Sonnetized in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare Quarterly 40, no. 1 (spring 1989): 27-41.

Notes the influence of the Petrarchan sonnet on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.