Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

ISBN-10:
1903436834
ISBN-13:
9781903436837
Pub. Date:
06/16/2005
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
1903436834
ISBN-13:
9781903436837
Pub. Date:
06/16/2005
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

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Overview

Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in returban. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.This edition of the play offers in its introduction and commentary an extensive discussion of the materials that informed Shakespeare's compositional choices, both those conventional sources and other contexts, from cuckold jokes to conduct books, which inform the ideas and identities of this play. Particular attention is devoted to Renaissance understandings of gender identity and social rank, as well as to the social valences of Shakespeare's stylistic choices. A treatment of staging possibilities offers illustrations drawn from the earliest and recent theatrical practices, and a critical history examines the fate of the play in the changing trends of academic scholarship. "The text is superb... the critical introduction is predictably smart and engaging, exactly the sort of essay one would recommend to students."Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781903436837
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/16/2005
Series: Arden Shakespeare Series
Edition description: Third Edition
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Claire McEachern is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has edited The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, and co-edited Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, as well as five volumes of the Pelican Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry IV, Henry V, King John, and All's Well That Ends Well). Her other previous publications include Poetics of English Nationhood 1590-1612.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
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