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Much Ado About Nothing : The Oxford Shakespeare
Paperback Edition: 1
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction.
Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks theattitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and peformers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor asmuch as for the critic.
Pages : 224
Publisher : Oxford World's Classics
Publication date : 2008-04
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Theatre Studies, Shakespeare Plays