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Adams, Barry B. "The Prudence of Prince Escalus." 1968.

Topics: Prince Escalus, reason, fortune. Grade: C

Andrews, John F. "Falling in Love: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet." 1993.

Topics: love, tragedy. Grade: B

Ashcroft, Dame Peggy. "Romeo and Juliet." 1982.

Topics: tragedy, Juliet. Grade: B+

Auden, W. H. "Commentary on the Poetry and Tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet'." 1958.

Topics: sin, selfishness, damnation. Grade: D

Berry, Ralph. "Romeo and Juliet: The Sonnet-World of Verona" 1978.

Topics: sonnets, social stereotypes. Grade: B

Black, James. "The Visual Artistry of Romeo and Juliet" 1975.

Topic: stage pictures. Grade: B

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. 1998.

Topic: The usual introductory stuff about Romeo and Juliet. Grade: C-

Bowling, Lawrence E. "The Thematic Framework of Romeo and Juliet." 1949.

Topic: "the wholeness and complexity of things" Grade: D

Brooke, Nicholas. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies. 1968.

Topic: comic and tragic elements? Grade: F

Brown, John Russell. "S. Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet." 1962.

Topic: Zeffirelli's stage production. Grade: A

Bruce, Brenda. "Nurse in Romeo and Juliet." 1985.

Topic: The Nurse's point of view. Grade: A.

Bryant, James C. "The Problematic Friar in Romeo and Juliet." 1974.

Topic: Friar Laurence's faults. Grade: C

Calderwood, James L. "Romeo and Juliet: A Formal Dwelling" 1971.

Topic: metadrama. Grade: F

Cartwright, Kent. Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double:

The Rhythms of Audience Response. 1991.
Topic: "contrasts of presence and dissonance" Grade D-

Charney, Maurice. Shakespeare on Love and Lust. 2000.

Topic: tragedy. Grade: F

Dessen, Alan C. "Q1 Romeo and Juliet and Elizabethan Theatrical Vocabulary." 1995.

Topic: Q1 as an acting edition. Grade: C

Dickey, Franklin M. Not Wisely But Too Well: Shakespeare's Love Tragedies. 1957.

Topic: excessive love. Grade: B+

Draper, J. W. "Shakespeare's 'Star-Crossed Lovers'." 1959.

Topic: astrology, tragedy. Grade: D

Evans, Bertrand. "The Brevity of Friar Laurence." 1950.

Topic: "unawareness," fate. Grade: C

Evans, Robert O. The Osier Cage: Rhetorical Devices in Romeo and Juliet. 1966.

Topic: Evans' opinions about this and that. Grade: D-

Garber, Marjorie. "Romeo and Juliet: Patterns and Paradigms." 1979.

Topics: contrasts, Juliet. Grade: A

Granville-Barker, Harley. "Romeo and Juliet." 1947.

Topics: Shakespeare's mastery of plot and character, the fight between Romeo and Tybalt. Grade: A

Halio, Jay L. "Handy-Dandy: Q1/Q2 Romeo and Juliet." 1995.

Topic: Q1 as a performance text. Grade: C

Hapgood, Robert. "West Side Story and the Modern Appeal of Romeo and Juliet." 1972.

Topic: West Side Story. Grade: C

Harris, Julie. "Foreward to Romeo and Juliet." 1989.

Topics: Juliet, Julie Harris. Grade: D

Harrison, Thomas P. "Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream: Companion Plays." 1971.

Topic: similarities between the two plays. Grade: C-

Hill, R. F. "Shakespeare's Early Tragic Mode." 1958.

Topic: natural and artificial modes of expression. Grade: A

Hodgdon, Barbara. "Absent Bodies, Present Voices:

Performance Work and the Close of Romeo and Juliet's Golden Story." 1989.
Topic: Hodgdon's avant-garde (as of 1989) theories about theatre. Grade: F

Holmer, Joan Ozark. "No 'Vain Fantasy':

Shakespeare's Refashioning of Nashe for Dreams and Queen Mab." 1995.
Topic: the source of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech. Grade: D.

Hosley, Richard. "The Use of the Upper Stage in Romeo and Juliet." 1954.

Topic: the use of the balcony. Grade: C

Jorgens, Jack. "Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet." 1977.

Topics: Zeffirelli's film, tragedy Grade: B

Kahn, Coppélia. "Coming of Age in Verona." 1977.

Topic: "patriarchal family values." Grade: B

Kristeva, Julia. "Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple." 1987.

Topics: Shakespeare's psyche, Kristeva's theories. Grade: F-

Laroque, François. "Tradition and Subversion in Romeo and Juliet." 1995.

Topic: subversion vs. evil tradition Grade: D

Lawlor, John. "'Romeo and Juliet'." 1961.

Topic: tragedy. Grade: C-

Levenson, Jill L. "'Alla Stoccado carries it away':

Codes of Violence in Romeo and Juliet." 1985.
Topic: violence. Grade: B

-----. Shakespeare in Performance: Romeo and Juliet. 1987.

Topic: performance history. Grade: A

Levin, Harry. "Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet." 1960.

Topics: stereotypes, poetic devices, character development. Grade:B

Limon, Jerzy. "Rehabilitating Tybalt:

A New Interpretation of the Duel Scene in Romeo and Juliet." 1995.
Topic: Tybalt's character. Grade: B

Maguin, Jean-Marie. "Shakespeare, Hypnos, and Thanatos:

Romeo and Juliet in the Space of Myth." 1995.
Topic: sleep vs. death. Grade: F

Mahood, M. M. "Romeo and Juliet." 1957.

Topics: Shakespeare's wordplay, tragedy, Romeo's character. Grade: A

McArthur, Herbert. "Romeo's Loquacious Friend." 1959.

Topic: opinions about Mercutio. Grade: B

McElroy, Bernard. Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies. 1973.

Topic: tragedy. Grade:C

McGuire, Philip C. "On the Dancing in Romeo and Juliet." 1981.

Topics: imagery, maturity, prudence. Grade: D

Melchiori, Giorgio. "Peter, Balthasar, and Shakespeare's Art of Doubling." 1983.

Topics: doubling, Q1 Grade: D

Moore, Olin H. The Legend of Romeo and Juliet 1950.

Topic: Shakespeare's sources. Grade: C

Nevo, Ruth. "Tragic Form in Romeo and Juliet." 1969.

Topic: tragedy. Grade: B

Newman, Paula, and George Walton Williams. "Paris: The Mirror of Romeo." 1982.

Topic: parallels between Paris and Romeo. Grade: D

Nosworthy, J. M. "The Two Angry Families of Verona." 1952.

Topic: tragedy. Grade: D

Novy, Marianne. "Violence, Love, and Gender in Romeo and Juliet." 1984.

Topics: gender, love Grade: B

Peterson, Douglas. "Romeo and Juliet and the Art of Moral Navigation." 1966.

Topic: Romeo and Juliet's wrong choices. Grade: D

Pettet, E. C. "The Imagery of Romeo and Juliet." 1950.

Topic: "the note of Fate and premonition" Grade: A

Phillips, Brian. SparkNotes on Romeo and Juliet. Online. Visited:  30 June 2002

Topics: Study guide stuff -- plot, character, themes Grade: C

Porter, Joseph A. Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama. 1988.

Topics: Mercutio, trendy theories. Grade: F

Rabkin, Norman. Shakespeare and the Common Understanding. 1967.

Topics: tragedy, complementary contradictions. Grade: B

Ribner, Irving. Patterns in Shakesperian Tragedy. 1960.

Topic: Christian interpretation. Grade: C

Snow, Edward. "Language and Sexual Difference in Romeo and Juliet." 1985.

Topic: the superiority of women. Grade: C-

Smith, J. N. "ClassicNote on Romeo and Juliet. Online. Visited:  4 July 2002.

Contents: Act summaries, misinformation. Grade: F-

Snyder, Susan. "Romeo and Juliet: Comedy into Tragedy." 1970.

Topics: tragedy, Mercutio, Romeo. Grade: A

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "Time in Romeo and Juliet." 1964.

Topics: time references, "the sense of foreboding." Grade: A

Traversi, D. A. "From An Approach to Shakespeare." 1956.

Topic: love. Grade: C

Utterback, Raymond V. "The Death of Mercutio." 1973.

Topics: tragedy, destiny, moral choice. Grade: B

Van Doren, Mark. "Romeo and Juliet." 1993.

Topics: imagery, tone, love Grade: A

Wells, Stanley. "Juliet's Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality." 1980.

Topics: the Nurse, Juliet. Grade: B

Williams, George W., ed. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie

of Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Edition. 1964.
Topic: texts. Grade: N/A

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