Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action
of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and
useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history
of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of
notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid
commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language,
thought and staging. For this updated edition Thomas Moisan has
added a new section to the Introduction which takes account of the
number of important professional theatre productions and the large
output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in
recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and
augmented.