Searching for Juliet

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529365160
  • Weight: 238g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'Witty and scholarly'
JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Thrilling'
GUARDIAN

'Illuminating . . . as vital and provocative as the character herself'
LITERARY REVIEW

'Buoyant'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'An astonishing tour-de-force'
MARION TURNER, author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Who is Juliet Capulet?

Daughter of Verona
Lovestruck Teenager
Romantic Icon
Tragic Heroine
Rebel

Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind Shakespeare's child bride to enslaved people in the Caribbean, Italian fascists in Verona, and real-life lovers in Afghanistan. From the Victorian stage to 1960s cinema, Baz Luhrmann, and beyond. Drawing on rich cultural and historical sources and new research, Sophie Duncan shows us why Juliet is for now, for ever, for everyone.

Dr Sophie Duncan is a Research Fellow and Dean for Welfare at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She writes about Shakespeare, gender and race in theatre history, and acts as an historical advisor to theatre, radio and television. She was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and now lives in Oxford.