Rome & Juliet: Our Responsibility to the Text

Complete Romeo & Juliet Playlist:    • Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare Play by Play   This video is about Romeo and Juliet and Textual Theory. I explain the early printing history and the problems editors face when creating an edition of the play. Support this work on Patreon:   / amorsciendi   Original Thumbnail art by Robin Amiri Original music by August White Text of Q1: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/d... Text of Q2: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/d... Contents: 0:00 Introduction 1:20 Early Modern Printing History 6:52 Early Printed Editions of R&J 13:30 Rest Vs. Rust 17:38 What are we doing? References Belsey, C. (2014). Romeo and Juliet: Language and writing. A&C Black. Erne, L. (2013). Shakespeare as literary dramatist. Cambridge University Press. Gossett, S. (2022). Shakespeare and textual theory. Bloomsbury Publishing. Laoutaris, C. (2023). Shakespeare’s book: The story behind the first folio and the making of shakespeare. Simon and Schuster. Maguire, L. E. (1996). Shakespearean suspect texts: The “bad” quartos and their contexts. Cambridge University Press. Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597) :: Internet Shakespeare editions. (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2025, from https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/d... Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 2, 1599) :: Internet Shakespeare editions. (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2025, from https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/d... Shakespeare, W. (n.d.). Romeo and Juliet - Entire play. Folger. Retrieved March 2, 2025, from https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes... Shakespeare, W. (2013). Romeo and Juliet: Third series. A&C Black. Werstine, P. (2012). Preface. In Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare (pp. xi–xiii). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139103... #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare