The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
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Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0199536112
ISBN-13 : 9780199536115
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, 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 the attitudes 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 performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.


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