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Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Much Ado About Nothing sparkles with witty exchanges between Beatrice and Benedick, standing as one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies. The play explores themes of love, deception, and marriage through clever dialogue and dynamic characters.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This edition is ideal for students, scholars, and lovers of classical theatre seeking a critically informed and accessible text. Readers interested in gender relations, social analysis, and performance history will find Sheldon P. Zitner's introduction particularly insightful.

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Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, 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 performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199536115

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Illustration: halftones

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sheldon P. Zitner

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Non-Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics William Shakespeare

About the Author

Sheldon P. Zitner is Professor Emeritus, 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)

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