books.google.ca - For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written for acting, in a theatre of a particular type....http://books.google.ca/books/about/Shakespeare_s_Stagecraft.html?id=NkYsNNG2insC&q=Romeo+and+Juliet&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareShakespeare's Stagecraft