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Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Title Much ado about nothing / edited by John F. Cox
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 257 pages)
Series Shakespeare in production
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare in production.
Summary This 1998 edition of Much Ado About Nothing focuses wholly on the play in performance. John Cox investigates major issues and trends in the production of this popular work, analysing successive reinterpretations of the play in relation to their cultural and ideological contexts. Gender issues are central to the study, which highlights in striking ways the changing constructions of womanhood in performances from Shakespeare's time to the present. A commentary alongside the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of the text recreates in lively detail interpretations of each passage in a variety of British, American, Canadian and other productions, including film and television versions. A full introduction also examines the problematic relation of dark and comic elements in a wide range of performances. An essential resource for students, teachers, actors and directors, this is an illuminating book for all theatregoers
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing.
SUBJECT Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject Rejection (Psychology) -- Drama
Conspiracies -- Drama
Courtship -- Drama
Conspiracies
Courtship
Rejection (Psychology)
Messina (Italy) -- Drama
Italy -- Messina
Genre/Form Drama
Comedies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, John F., editor.
ISBN 9781316563953
1316563952