Description
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeares 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 plays minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeares transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Allowing for the plays openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.
Author: William Shakespeare
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/15/2008
Series: Oxford Worlds Classics (Paperback)
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.67h x 5.16w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780199536115
Language: English
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