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Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title Much ado about nothing / edited by Sheldon P. Zitner
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : illustrations
Series The Oxford Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1982.
Summary "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 performers, the editor provides a socially analytic stage history. Full notes and commentary continue previous editors' work of clarifying textual and performance problems of interest to both readers and actors."--Jacket
Analysis English drama
English drama
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Conspiracies -- Drama.
Courtship -- Drama.
Rejection (Psychology) -- Drama.
SUBJECT Messina (Italy) -- Drama. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115842
Genre/Form Comedies.
Drama.
Drama.
Form Electronic book
Author Zitner, Sheldon P.
ISBN 0191732532
1101993677
9780191732539
9781101993675
9781467768382
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