Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts

Ariane Helou is a scholar of Renaissance literature, a dramaturg and Scientific Writing Specialist at the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, USA. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts shows how Shakespeare’s “star-crossed” lovers have unfinished cultural business. From dance and ballet to production case studies, and from Romeo cyborgs in complex TV to vampire Juliets, the volume theorises adaptations as re-constellations, expansions and creative collaborations with Shakespeare.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Ariane Helou (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, USA)Part One: Romeo and Juliet in Music and Dance 1. Juliet’s Vocal Metamorphoses: Transformation and Fidelity from Ovid to Berlioz Ariane Helou (California Institute of Technology, USA)2. Holy Palmers' Kiss: Love, Trust and Wisdom in John Neumeier's Romeo and Juliet BalletJehbreal Muhammad Jackson (Columbia University, USA) and Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, USA)3. A Self by Any Other Name: Five Pas De Deux in MacMillan's Romeo and JulietLaura Levine ( NYU, USA)Part Two: Romeo and Juliet in Narrative Media 4. ‘Cut him out in little stars’: Afterlives of Romeo and Juliet in Early Joyce and Beckett Beryl Schlossman (University of California, USA)5. Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Fidelity and Technicity in Westworld and Romeo and Juliet Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College, USA)6. Ronnie Khalil’s With A Kiss I Die: Reanimating Shakespeare’s Juliet, Fidelity, Vampires, Time, and Whatever Samuel Kolodezh (CSUN, NYU, UCSD, USA)Part three: Romeo and Juliet in Diaspora 7. Anuvading Romeo: Retelling ‘Love’ in Indian Iterations of Romeo and Juliet Anandi Rao (University of London, UK)8. Bridging Performance and Philosophy: Romeo and Juliet in Korea Seon Young Jang ( Kongju National University, South Korea)9. Romeo and Juliet at an Historically Black College/University John ‘Ray’ Proctor (Tulane University, USA)About the Authors Index