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Much Ado about Nothing
William Shakespeare
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Description for Much Ado about Nothing
Paperback. Part of the "Cambridge School Shakespeare" series, resulting from the Shakespeare and Schools Project, this analysis and text of this play is designed for 14 to 18 years olds and takes into account National Curriculum requirements, changes in GCSE, A-level and other post-16 qualifications. Editor(s): Berry, Mary; Clamp, Michael. Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 line drawings, 15 half-tones, 4-colour cover. BIC Classification: 4KHN; 4KHT; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
This edition of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies, offers, along with a freshly edited text, an exceptionally helpful and critically aware Introduction and commentary. Paying particular attention in his Introduction to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material, rethinking the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its ruefully optimistic view of marriage. Interpretations are advanced less because they are arguable than because they are actable. Allowing for the play's openness to re-interpretation by successive generations of readers and ... Read more
This edition of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies, offers, along with a freshly edited text, an exceptionally helpful and critically aware Introduction and commentary. Paying particular attention in his Introduction to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material, rethinking the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its ruefully optimistic view of marriage. Interpretations are advanced less because they are arguable than because they are actable. Allowing for the play's openness to re-interpretation by successive generations of readers and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1992
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge School Shakespeare
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521426107
SKU
KCW0002980
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Ref
99-2
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