Introduction / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi -- Prologue: Shakespeare and Verona / Stanley Wells -- Part I. Dialectics of private and public spaces. -- 1. Classical paradigms of tragic choice in civic stories of love and death / Guido Avezzù -- 2. Private and public spheres and the 'civic turn' in Da Porto, Bandello, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Robert Henke -- 3. Shakespeare as 'chief architect and plotter' : Romeo and Juliet and civic space / Roy Eriksen -- 4. Inside-outside : love, household, and city in Romeo and Juliet / Mera J. Flaumenhaft -- 5. Defiance and denial : paradigms of civic transgression and transcendence in Romeo and Juliet / Silvia Bigliazzi -- 6. Tying the knot in "fair Verona" : the private and public spaces of marriage in Romeo and Juliet / Lisanna Calvi -- 7. Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lucia Nigri -- Part II. Civic performances and R&Jspaces. -- 8. "For these dead birds sigh a prayer" / Paul Edmondson -- 9. "Wherefore art thou Marius?" : Otway's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet / Loretta Innocenti -- 10. Brooke, Garrick, Romeo and Juliet, and the public sphere / Michael Dobson -- 11. At Juliet's tomb : Anglophone travel-writing and Shakespeare's Verona, 1814-1914 / Nicola J. Watson -- 12. Producing a (R&)Jspace : discursive and social practices in Verona / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi -- 13. Perché sei tu? : Lindsay Kemp's "gift of memory" / Jacquelyn Bessell -- 14. Stage(d) reconciliations : Romeo and Juliet and the politics of bilingual Shakespeare productions in Germany / Bettina Boecker -- Afterword: "What's past is prologue" : civic Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet and beyond / Ewan Fernie and Paul Edmonsdon.
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