Romeo and Juliet

Name: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare; Edited by Dympna Callaghan

First Edition©2003 William Shakespeare; Edited by Dympna Callaghan

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Featuring travel accounts, poetry, excerpts from early modern fencing manuals, royal proclamations and statutes, tables and prognostications from an early modern almanac, and orders for religious ceremonies from The Book of Common Prayer, the primary documents and illustrations accompanying this edition of Romeo and Juliet are extremely extensive. The companion resources to the Bevington edition of the play contextualize the social relationships among men in Shakespeare’s time, views of love and the Petrarchan paradigm, spiritual life, family in Elizabethan society, and ideas about astrology, medicine, and death.

ABOUT THE SERIES
ABOUT THIS VOLUME
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Introduction

PART ONE
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
(Edited by David Bevington)

PART TWO
Cultural Contexts

1. Italy
The Idea of Italy for Shakespeares English Audience
     Fynes Moryson, From His Ten Years Travel
     Roger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
     Thomas Nashe, From The Unfortunate Traveler, or the Life of Jack Wilton
     William Thomas, From The History of Italy
     G.B.A.F., From A Discovery of the Great Subtlety and Wonderful Wisdom of the Italians
     Andreas Franciscus, From A Description of the Authors Journey from Trento to London

2. Between Men
Relationships between Men
     Richard Barnfield, From The Affectionate Shepherd
     Vincentio Saviolo, From His Practice
     George Silver, From Paradoxes of Defense
Keeping the Peace
     Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Enforcing Statutes of Apparel
     Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Prohibiting Unlawful Assembly under Martial Law
     Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Enforcing Earlier Proclamation against Handguns
     King James I, Proclamation Prohibiting the Publishing of Any Reports or Writing of Duels
     William Fleetwood, Report to Lord Burghley

3. Loving and Marrying
     Charles Gibbon, From A Work Worth the Reading
     John Stockwood, From A Bartholomew Fairing for Parents
     Thomas Hilder, From Conjugal Counsel: or, Seasonable Advice, Both to Unmarried, and Married Persons
     Henry Swinburne, From A Treatise of Spousals
     John Donne, Letter to Sir George More
     Francesco Petrarch, From The Canzoniere
     Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 9
     William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130
     Solemnization of Matrimony

4. Family Life
Richard Day, A Prayer of Children for Their Parents

Correspondence of the Bagot Family
     Richard Bagot, Letter to Richard Broughton
     Lord John Lumley, Letter to Richard Bagot Esquire
     Thomas Rugeley, Letter to Richard Bagot
     Walter Bagot, Letter to Henry Skipwith
     Richard Rugeley, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Walter Bagot, Letter to an Unidentified Man
     Edmund Waring, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Sir John Ferrers, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Jane Skipwith (Roberts), Lady Markham, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Jane Skipwith, Letter to Lewes Bagot
     Jane Skipwith, Letters to Walter Bagot
     Walter Bagot, Letter to Henry Skipwith
     Lewes Bagot, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Robert Broughton, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Lady Elinor Cave, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Sir Thomas Cokayne, Letter to Walter Bagot
     Walter Bagot, Letter to Christopher Brooke
     Martin Heton, Letter to Richard Bagot

Mothering
     Lady Elizabeth (Knyvett) Clinton, Countess of Lincoln, From The Countess of Lincolns
Nursery
     Henry Smith, From A Preparative to Marriage
     Lady Anne Clifford, From The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford
     Sir Hugh Platt, From Delights for Ladies to Adorn Their Persons, Tables, Closets, and
Distillatories

5. Friars
     St. Bonaventure, From The Life of the Most Holy Father St. Francis
     John Foxe, From Acts and Monuments
     Edmund Spenser, From The Faerie Queene

6. Death and the Stars
Love and Death
     Jacques Ferrand, From Erotomania
     From An Act Concerning Physicians and Royal College of Physicians of London, From Pharmacopoeia Londonensis
     Nicholas Culpeper, From Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
     Richard Day, A Prayer to Be Said at Our Going to Bed and A Prayer When We Be Ready to Sleep

Astrology

Funerals and Monuments
     The Order for the Burial of the Dead
     Queen Elizabeth I, Proclamation Prohibiting Destruction of Church Monuments
     John Jewel, From An Homily Against Apparel of Idolatry and Superfluous Decking of
Churches

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