About
My name is Caitlin Celka and I am a senior studying English and Writing and Editing at Auburn University Montgomery. I recently studied abroad with Dr. Seth Reno and his Literary Tourism class and received the incredible opportunity of traveling across the United Kingdom. Since our course was centered around William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and William Wordsworth, we got to experience where each of these literary celebrities spent some of their time writing and living. One of the most memorable and special events that I got to attend was seeing a modern-day production of "Romeo and Juliet" at Shakespeare's Globe. Seeing this production truly opened my eyes to the numerous approaches that directors have on Shakespeare's plays, but director Daniel Kramer of The Globe's 2017 "Romeo and Juliet" production took a completely new turn on this play. Between his costume choices, his choice to illuminate the numerous sexual references and jokes in the text on his stage, and even his bold decision to have a female Mercutio are just a fraction of reasons why I was enchanted by this production. It was after I found myself thinking about this production for days that I decided to do archival research on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." I started with the Folger Shakespeare Library and found an edition that was published in 1599 that contained some Early Modern English, minor stylistic differences, and punctuation differences that were not in David Bevington's 2017 edition of The Necessary Shakespeare. After comparing and contrasting the two texts, I decided to reveal a few of the minor changes that have occurred throughout the 1599 and 2017 editions. Enjoy!
References/Citations:
"Luna: Folger Digital Image Collection." Folger Shakespeare Library. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, Web. 10 July 2017.
Shakespeare, William and David M. Bevington. The Necessary Shakespeare. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2017. Print.
"Luna: Folger Digital Image Collection." Folger Shakespeare Library. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, Web. 10 July 2017.
Shakespeare, William and David M. Bevington. The Necessary Shakespeare. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2017. Print.