Presents articles discussing various themes in the play, including death, Catholicism, and the relationship between spectator and actor in Elizabethan theater.
Introduction / Harold Bloom On Shakespeare's informal language / Norman F. Blake "A thing like death": sleeping potions and poisons in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra / Tanya Pollard Shakespeare and Catholicism: the Franciscan connection / David Salter Romeo's "Death-markt" imagination and its tragic consequences / William M. McKim Wherefore art thou Tereu? Juliet and the legacy of rape / Robert N. Watson and Stephen Dickey "Bodied forth": spectator, stage, and actor in the early modern theater / Jennifer A. Low Toward a Shakespearean "Memory theater": Romeo, the apothecary, and the performance of memory / Lina Perkins Wilder "Wouldst thou withdraw love's faithful vow?": the negotiation of love in the orchard scene (Romeo and Juliet Act II) / Thomas Honegger Motion and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet / Daryl W. Palmer
