Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Oxford Shakespeare Much ADO about Nothing (Oxford Worlds Classics) Paperback – Illustrated, 17 April 2008
by William Shakespeare (Author), Sheldon P. Zitner (Editor)


Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeares 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 plays minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeares 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 plays openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and peformers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.


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Book information

ISBN: 9780199536115
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 17 Apr 2008
DEWEY: 822.33
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: ix, 214
Weight: 240g
Height: 195mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 12mm