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Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Description for Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare
Paperback. Editor(s): Zitner, Sheldon P. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 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 peformers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new ... Read more
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 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 peformers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536115
SKU
V9780199536115
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About William Shakespeare
Sheldon P. Zitner is Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto. He has written extensively on Renaissance Literature, including a recent book-length study of All's Well That Ends Well (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
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