Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew

This volume presents a broad range of critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare''s two comedies, The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing . The essays approach the plays from a number of theoretical positions: feminist, historicist, deconstruction and psychoanalytic, as well as offering general commentary and a discussion of film versions and stage productions. The introduction explains the development of these critical pieces, making the two plays considered accessible to students at all levels.>

Product details

• Authors: WYNNE DAVIES MARION, Marion Wynne-Davies
• Assisted by: Marion Wynne-Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2001
• EAN: 9780333657904
• ISBN: 978-0-333-65790-4
• No. of pages: 257
• Series: New Casebooks; New Casebooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern