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Romeo and Juliet in European CultureEdited by Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor
[Shakespeare in European Culture 1] 2017
► pp. 159–176
This chapter traces the history, past and present, of Romeo and Juliet in Sweden, by looking at a few memorable productions, translations and adaptations. In addition, it seeks to give some tentative answers to the questions why, after a first period of popularity, the play was comparatively rarely performed for over a hundred years, and why it then subsequently recovered its popularity on Swedish stages.