Folger Shakespeare. Contains a summary of each scene along with annotations. Selected bibliography.
Signet Classics. Contains text, essays including sources and theater history. Selected bibliography. Variorum text. Contains text, sources, notes on critical commentary, notes on editing.
Reference Works
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. deSousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1995. Introduction to critical approaches and scholarly resources, with a section on writing and documenting a ter m paper.
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Rev. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1973. Essays on major critical opinion, play by play.
Blake, Norman. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. A general introduction to Elizabethan English, giving possible meanings for problematic constructions.
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. NY: Laurel, Dell, 1990. Reference book with entries on plays (scene-by-scene summary, commentary, sources and theatrical history), characters, actors, historical people. For the general reader. Selected bibliography.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1957-1975.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare. NY: William Morrow, 1992. Recent, readable biography of Shakespeare and his times. Modern Language Association annual bibliography. Now searchable on CD-ROM (under electronic collections at workstations in the libra ry).
Papp, Joseph and Elizabeth Kirkland. Shakespeare Alive! NY: Bantam, 1988. A lively introduction to Elizabethan thought, Shakespeare's sources and theatre and stage history of Shakespearean production.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdry. Rev. ed. NY: Dutton, 1955. A glossary of bawdy words and phrases.
Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen : An International Filmography and Videography. London: Mansell, 1990. Exhaustive list of screen materials, organized by play and date of production. Includes critical reception, names of personnel in production, information about distributors. Shakespeare Quarterly. Annual bibliography that is exhaustive on articles, productions, editions, translations of Shakespeare. Annotated entries.
Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973. Lists all the words in Shakespeare's works with reference to plays. (6 vol. version gives words play by play and character by character)
Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. New edition. NY: Oxford UP, 1990.
Bernstein, Leonard. West Side Story. Film. 1961. With Natalie Wood as Juliet and Richard Beymer as Romeo.
Cukor, George, director; Irving Thalberg, producer. Romeo and Juliet. Film. 1936. With Leslie Howard as Romeo; Norma Shearer as Juliet; and John Barrymore as Mercutio.
Johnson, Carrie, director. Video of student production of Act 3, scene 5 for L315, Spring 1998. With Kathy Conyers as Juliet, Dane Mize as Romeo, Natalie Contos as the Nurse, Jonathan Edwards as Lord Capulet, and Anicia Richardson as Lady Capulet.
Luhrmann, Baz, director. Romeo and Juliet. Film. 1996. With Leonard diCaprio and Clare Danes.
Zeffirelli, Franco, director. Romeo and Juliet. Film. 1968. With Olivia Hussey as Juliet, Leonard Whiting as Romeo, and John McEnery as Mercutio.
Leech, Clifford. "The Moral Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet." English Renaissance Drama: Essays in Honor of Madeleine Doran and Mark Eccles. Eds. Standish Henning, Robert Kimbrough, and Richard Knowles. London: Feffer & Simmons, 1976. Pp. 59-75.
Rozett, Martha Tuck. Talking Back to Shakespeare. Newark, Delaware: U of Delaware P, 1994.
Siegel, Paul. "Christianity and the Religion of Love in Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare Quarterly 12 (1961).