Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of 'unspeakable' love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history.

Jonas Kellermann is a lecturer of English literature in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz, where he received his Ph.D. His research interests include the early modern period as well as the 21st-century Anglophone novel. He is a recipient of the Martin Lehnert Prize, awarded by the German Shakespeare Association.

Introduction: "A rapture so pure that its words are tears" Discoursing Love: Amorous Community in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Composing Love: Topical Fields and Gestures in Hector Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette Choreographing Love: Balletic Contact in Sasha Waltz's Roméo et Juliette "A story of more woe": Romeo and Juliet beyond Hector Berlioz and Sasha Waltz Conclusion: Towards a Transmedial Theory of Love References