{"product_id":"juliet-9781541600331","title":"Juliet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet — a history \"as vital and provocative as the character herself\" (\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e may be the greatest love story ever told, but who is Juliet? Demure ingénue? Or dangerous Mediterranean madwoman? From tearstained copies of the First Folio to Civil War-era fanfiction, Shakespeare’s star-crossed heroine has long captured our collective imagination.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuliet\u003c\/i\u003e is her story, traced across continents through four centuries of history, theatre, and film. As Oxford Shakespeare scholar Sophie Duncan reveals, Juliet’s legacy stretches beyond her literary lifespan into a cultural afterlife ranging from enslaved African girls in the British Caribbean to the real-life Juliets of sectarian violence in Bosnia and Belfast. She argues that our dangerous obsession with the beautiful dead teenager and Juliet’s meteoric rise as a defiant sexual icon have come to define the Western ideal of romance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wry and inventive, \u003ci\u003eJuliet\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to fiction’s most famous teenage girl who died young, but who lives forever. ","brand":"Seal Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67866069074098,"sku":"9781541600331","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/9781541600331.jpg?v=1793563571","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/juliet-9781541600331","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}