1st Edition

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet Word, Music, and Dance

By Jonas Kellermann Copyright 2022
242 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "unspeakable" love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet. Through in-depth case studies and... Read more

Introduction: "A rapture so pure that its words are tears"

Discoursing Love: Amorous Community in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Composing Love: Topical Fields and Gestures in Hector Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette

Choreographing Love: Balletic Contact in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette

"A story of more woe": Romeo and Juliet beyond Hector Berlioz and Sasha Waltz

Conclusion: Towards a Transmedial Theory of Love

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Biography

Jonas Kellermann is a lecturer of English literature in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz, where he received his Ph.D. His research interests include the early modern period as well as the 21st-century Anglophone novel. He is a recipient of the Martin Lehnert Prize, awarded by the German Shakespeare Association.