Overview
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 views for the actor as much as for the critic.
Full Product Details
Author: William Shakespeare ,
Sheldon P. Zitner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford Paperbacks
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.240kg
ISBN: 9780192834188
ISBN 10: 0192834185
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Zitner has written one of the finest introductions to the play that I have seen. I hope that between this edition and Branaugh's film we can make the play come alive to the present generation of students. --Ronald J. Boling, Lyon College<br> Handy, reliable, altogether excellent...with introductions that truly cover everything and notes that explain all that needs to be explained. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance<br>
Zitner has written one of the finest introductions to the play that I have seen. I hope that between this edition and Branaugh's film we can make the play come alive to the present generation of students. --Ronald J. Boling, Lyon College Handy, reliable, altogether excellent...with introductions that truly cover everything and notes that explain all that needs to be explained. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Zitner has written one of the finest introductions to the play that I have seen. I hope that between this edition and Branaugh's film we can make the play come alive to the present generation of students. --Ronald J. Boling, Lyon College Handy, reliable, altogether excellent...with introductions that truly cover everything and notes that explain all that needs to be explained. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Zitner has written one of the finest introductions to the play that I have seen. I hope that between this edition and Branaugh's film we can make the play come alive to the present generation of students. --Ronald J. Boling, Lyon College Handy, reliable, altogether excellent...with introductions that truly cover everything and notes that explain all that needs to be explained. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Zitner has written one of the finest introductions to the play that I have seen. I hope that between this edition and Branaugh's film we can make the play come alive to the present generation of students. --Ronald J. Boling, Lyon College Handy, reliable, altogether excellent...with introductions that truly cover everything and notes that explain all that needs to be explained. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
Author Information
Sheldon P. Zitner is Professor Emeritus of 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).
