Literary Commentary:

Bergeron, David M. "Sickness in Romeo and Juliet"

CLA Journal XX, No.1 (March 1977): 356-64.

A detailed analysis of the imagery of sickness, disease, and remedy in Romeo and Juliet and how it contributes to the tragic structure of the play.

Bruce, Brenda. "Nurse in Romeo and Juliet." In Players of Shakespeare: Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Twelve Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by Philip Brockbank, pp. 91-101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Provides a theatrical insight into the Nurse's character, describing how she interpreted the role for a 1981 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Romeo and Juliet

Chapman, Raymond. "Double Time in Romeo and Juliet." The Modem Language Review XLIV, NO.3 (July 1949): 372-74.

Analyzes the methods Shakespeare used to achieve the concept of double time in Romeo and Juliet, where action encompasses a longer period of time than is indicated by the...