Leonard Bernstein’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet comes to the stage of Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and this version is a real treat
In the recently published Searching for Juliet, an accessible academic study of William Shakespeare’s most famous female character, Sophie Duncan reinforces the curious point that: “Western culture’s template for romance is two dead teenagers whose lives and families are linked only by street brawls, opprobrium and blood”.
Concentrating on the child bride Juliet, Duncan traces a cultural history of Shakespeare’s tragedy from its first performances in Elizabethan England when she was ...
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