Presentation used in Romeo and Juliet: A Webinar. Presented by Paul Edmondson, with Rene Weis.

1. Romeo &
Juliet
Rene Weis Paul Edmondson

2. ‘Ever since its first performances
in the London of the late 1590s, it
has been one of Shakespeare’s
best loved works, in the theatre as
well as in the study. The reason
for this is partly Shakespeare’s
Juliet.’
~René Weis

3. Sir Peter
Hall 1961

4. Michael Bogdanov, 1986

5. ‘There is the same rich
exuberance of passion and
sentiment in the one that there is
of thought and sentiment in the
other.’
~William Hazlitt on Hamlet and Romeo
and Juliet.

6. ‘When Romeo is truly Romeo
he is lusty and priapic.’
~René Weis

7. Sir Peter
Hall
1961

8. Michael Bogdanov, 1986

9. Michael Attenborough, 1997

10. ‘In their own way they are
as radical as anything in
Hamlet or King Lear
regarding human selfhood
and moral being.’
~René Weis

11. Peter Gill
2004

12. Nancy Meckler
2006

13. ‘Instead of it being what you might be led
to think of as a languishing moonlight
scene, gazing at the sky, it’s a girl who is
almost out of breath with excitement,
who rushes out into the air. Anyway, that
is how I found the way to play the
balcony scene, after the third go at it.’
~Dame Peggy Ashcroft

14. ‘I might also advance the
hypothesis…that Hamnet’s
death triggered within
Shakespeare the nostalgia
for a couple that would have
been in love.’

15. Peter Brook, 1947

16. Michael Boyd,
2000

17. ‘When the film director Alfred
Hitchcock was asked how long
he could make a kiss last, he
replied “twenty to twenty-five
minutes…but I would put a
bomb under the bed first.”’
~René Weis

18. Michael Bogdanov, 1986

19. Hugh Quarshie (Tybalt) and Michael Kitchen
(Mercutio), for Michael Bogdanov, 1986

20. Francesca Annis
& Sir Ian
McKellen,
for Sir Trevor
Nunn, 1976

21. ‘No one comments on the
theological implications of suicide
when Montague and Capulet decide
to commemorate their dead children
in pure gold, when all of Verona will
pay homage to “true and faithful
Juliet” (5.3.2).’
~René Weis

22. Rupert Goold, 2010

23. Questio
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