Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language. In this new edition, Travis D. Williams reviews recent stage, television, film and critical interpretations of the play, considering treatment of the play's special interest in language, bodies and gender.

List of contents

Introduction; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. The time-scheme of Much Ado about Nothing, 2. Lewis Carroll's letter to Ellen Terry, 3. Benedick's song, 5.2.18-22; Reading list.

Product details

• Authors: F. H. Mares, William Shakespeare, Travis D. Williams
• Assisted by: F. H. Mares (Editor), Mares F. H. (Editor), Williams Travis D. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781316626733
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62673-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 12 mm
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; New cambridge shakespeare; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes; Fiction > Narrative literature; Literaturwissenschaft, Schauspiel, Englisch, Shakespeare, English, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, England / Sprache, Anthologie / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch, Drama - Dramatiker, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Dramatik, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600