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

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet explores the unspeakable love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history through a transdisciplinary discussion of Shakespeare, music, and dance. It combines affect theory, musicology, and dance studies to analyze and compare dramatic, musical, and choreographic dramatizations of love in Shakespeares tragedy, Berliozs symphony, and Waltzs ballet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of the unspeakable love story of Romeo and Juliet, combining current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities. Through in-depth case studies and historical contextualization, the book showcases how the woes of Shakespeare's iconic lovers have found expression not only in his verbal poetry but also in non-verbal adaptations of the play in 19th-century symphonic music and 20th- and 21st-century theatre dance. By combining methodological approaches from diverse disciplines, including affect theory, musicology, and dance studies, the study offers a new perspective on the artistic representation of love, defining amorous emotion as a generically transformative constellation of dialogic performativity.

To explore how this constellation has become manifest across the arts, the book analyzes and compares dramatic, musical, and choreographic dramatizations of love in William Shakespeare's early modern tragedy, French composer Hector Berlioz's dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette (1839), and the staging of Berlioz's symphony by German contemporary choreographer Sasha Waltz for the Paris Opera Ballet (2007). Chapters 1 and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Weight: 444g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032028606