library.SCOTCH: Romeo and Juliet: Related Reading

William Shakespeare's Life and TImes documentary

1091 Pictures. (2006). Where There's a Will; The Life and Times of William Shakespeare. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafnuBH8KPs

Internet Shakespeare Edition. (2011, January 4). Shakespeare's life and times. Retrieved from http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/index.html
Shakespeare's Life and Times introduces you to the world Shakespeare lived and worked in. This section of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is like a shelf of books, each of which is listed in the navigational bar beneath the page header. Each book, in turn, is divided into chapters dealing with related topics.
AbsoluteShakespeare.com. (n.d.). William Shakespeare. http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
William Shakespeare Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in history of English literature.
Maker, D. (n.d.). Romeo and Juliet historical context. https://shakespearestudy.wordpress.com/plays/romeo-and-juliet-historical-context/
This article introduces the historical context of Romeo and Juliet and explores how the play could have been a warning to Queen Elizabeth.

Minter, J. (n.d.). Romeo and Juliet is as much a story of hate as it is of love. http://www.englishworks.com.au/romeo-juliet/
A text response to Romeo and Juliet on love and hate by Dr Jennifer Minter.
Weinberger, J. (2003). Pious princes and red-hot lovers: the politics of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The Journal of Politics, 65(2), 350–375. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/1468-2508.t01-2-00004
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is obviously a tragedy of impetuous young love. But it is also a play about politics, especially politics as conditioned by Christian morality and religion.
Mainar, L. M. G. (1998). Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", and male melodrama. Atlantis, 20(2), 27–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41055511
This essay explores the ways in which the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ deals with sexuality and social and textual elaboration.
Siegel, P. N.. (1961). Christianity and the religion of love in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare Quarterly, 12(4), 371–392. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2867455
The long established traditional interpretation of Romeo and Juliet is that it is a drama of fete or sheer misfortune in which the lovers are not responsible for the catastrophe they suffer. Recently, however, a number of scholars have argued that the Elizabethans , with their Christian background of thought, would have regarded the lovers as guilty sinner rather than innocent victims.

BBC Bitesize. (1998). Romeo and Juliet http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/dramaromeojuliet/
The information covered in this guide includes an introduction to the story and the author; a plot summary; descriptions of important characters, themes, dramatic effect and language.
Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11). Romeo and Juliet. https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/romeo-and-juliet/
Struggling with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Shmoop offer a thorough summary and analysis of this literary masterpiece.
Nebo Literature.(n.d.). Language of Romeo and Juliet. https://nebo-lit.com/drama/romeo-juliet/Language-Romeo-and-Juliet.html
Nebo Literature offers an easy to read analysis of Romeo and Juliet including: introduction, techniques, language and close Reading