Book contents
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Series page
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction – From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen
- Part I Revisiting the Canon
- Part II Extending Genre
- Part III Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets
- Chapter 11 Romeo and Juliet, Again and Again: Star-Crossed Lovers Adapted to Serial Television
- Chapter 12 Romeo and Juliet in the Japanese Anime Candy Candy: The Balcony Scene between Tradition and Subversion
- Chapter 13 The (Un)Queering of Romeo and Juliet on Film
- Chapter 14 Romeo and Juliet and Queer Temporality in Three Twenty-first-century Streaming Web-Series
- Chapter 15 Reviving Juliet and Surviving Romeo in Shakespeare Web-Series
- Chapter 16 Romeo and Juliet on Screen: Select Film-bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Romeo and Juliet, Again and Again: Star-Crossed Lovers Adapted to Serial Television
from Part III - Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2023
Book contents
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Series page
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction – From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen
- Part I Revisiting the Canon
- Part II Extending Genre
- Part III Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets
- Chapter 11 Romeo and Juliet, Again and Again: Star-Crossed Lovers Adapted to Serial Television
- Chapter 12 Romeo and Juliet in the Japanese Anime Candy Candy: The Balcony Scene between Tradition and Subversion
- Chapter 13 The (Un)Queering of Romeo and Juliet on Film
- Chapter 14 Romeo and Juliet and Queer Temporality in Three Twenty-first-century Streaming Web-Series
- Chapter 15 Reviving Juliet and Surviving Romeo in Shakespeare Web-Series
- Chapter 16 Romeo and Juliet on Screen: Select Film-bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The structure of Shakespearean drama does not fit easily into the novel-like episodic sequence of the television series. It is therefore no wonder that none of the serialized adaptations of Romeo and Juliet seem to have survived the first season of their broadcast. Nonetheless, the two series examined here, Star-Crossed (created by Meredith Averill for CW, 2014) and Still Star-Crossed (created by Heather Mitchell for ABC, 2017) are worthy of critical attention for a number of reasons. They appear to take radically different paths in appropriating the famously ill-fated romance to contemporary television screens, both in terms of genre and setting, language and style, and also in the way they intend to open up the play’s dramatic structure into a potentially endless sequence of episodes.
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- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet , pp. 171 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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