Films and Adaptations
George Cukor. Romeo and Juliet. (1936)

Renato Castellani. Romeo and Juliet. (1954)

Robert Wise. West Side Story. (1961)

Franco Zeffirelli. Romeo and Juliet. (1968)

Baz Luhrmann. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. (1996)

John Madden. Shakespeare in Love. (1998)

Fumitoshi Oizaki. Romeo x Juliet (2009)

Criticism

Anderegg, Michael. “James Dean Meets the Pirate’s Daughter: Passion and Parody in William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 56-71.

---. “The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet.” Cinematic Shakespeare. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 54-85.

Cartmell, Deborah. “Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 212-221.

Crowl, Samuel. “Shooting Stars: Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 119-134.

Dalsimer, Katherine. Female Adolescence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780300034592.

Donaldson, Peter. "'Let Lips do what hands do': Male Bonding, Eros and Loss in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet." In Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors. Boston, MA: Unwin and Hyman, 1990, pp. 145-188. ISBN: 9780044452300.

---. “’In Fair Verona:’ Media, Spectacle and Performance in Romeo + Juliet.” In Shakespeare after Mass Media. Edited by Richard Burt. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002, 59-82. ISBN: 9780312294540.

Hodgdon, Barbara. "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Everything's Nice in America?" Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 88-98.

Jorgens, Jack J. “Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 79-91.

Lehmann, Courtney. “Shakespeare in Love: Romancing the Author, Mastering the Body.” Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Eds. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemount Publishing and Printing Corp., 2002. 125-148.

---. “Shakespeare Unauthorized: Tragedy ‘by the book’ in Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002. 25-54.

---. “Strictly Shakespeare?: Dead Letters, Ghostly Fathers, and the Cultural Pathology of Authorship in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.” Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002. 130-160.

Manvell, Roger. “The Italians and Shakespeare: Castellani and Zeffirelli.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 97-100.

Modenessi, Alfredo Michel. “(Un)doing the Book ‘without Verona walls’: A View from the Receiving End of Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.” Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Eds. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemount Publishing and Printing Corp., 2002. 62-88.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. (1999). “Shakespeare in Love, in Love with Shakespeare: The Adoration after the Millenium.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 248-274. (incl. brief discussions of Shakespeare in Love, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus)

Rothwell, Kenneth S. (1999). “Spectacle and Song in Castellani and Zeffirelli.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 119-135.

Snow, Edward. "Language and Sexual Difference in Romeo and Juliet." In Shakespeare's 'Rough Magic': Essays in Honor of C.L. Barbe. Edited by Peter Erickson and Coppelia Kahn. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985, pp. 168-192.