Much Ado About Nothing - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0521532507 ISBN 13: 9780521532501

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Riassunto

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Much Ado About Nothing retains the text and introduction prepared by F. H. Mares and features a new section by Angela Stock on recent film, stage and critical interpretations of the play. Mares pays special attention in the Introduction to the range of theatrical interpretations that have flourished since the first documented production of the play in the early seventeenth century. In particular, he explores notable performances of the roles of Benedick and Beatrice, from David Garrick to John Gielgud, and Peggy Ashcroft to Judi Dench. The commentary explicates the many sexual jokes in the text that are obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan English.

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Descrizione del libro:

For this second edition of Much Ado About Nothing Angela Stock has added a new section to F. H. Mares' introduction, in which she considers both the romantic and the darker aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations.

Contenuti:

Introduction, with new section by Angela Stock on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: The time-scheme of Much Ado About Nothing; Lewis Carroll's Letter to Ellen Terry; Benedick's song; Reading list.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521532507
• ISBN 13: 9780521532501
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Redattore: Mares F. H.