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Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare). William Shakespeare, F. H. Mares

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Language: English
Page: 188
ISBN: 0521825431, 9780521825436

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"The text is superb . . . the critical introduction is predictably smart and engaging, exactly the sort of essay one would recommend to students."—Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey  "The notes are a pleasure to read; glosses are adept and concise, without windy disquisitions on alternative meanings. Many longer entries are fascinating...Graceful concision also marks the notes on performance and theatrical history...Deftly deploys a combination of linguistic and literary analysis, theater history, and textual commentary...give[s] the reader a sense of the whole play as alive and ever changing, with many intriguing possibilities for interpretation, capably set out within the frame she has created."—Shakespeare Quarterly
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Book Description

Much Ado has always been popular on the stage, where, from the time of Garrick, famous actors have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews the romantic and the darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations. She also tackles the critical fortunes of Hero and Claudio in terms of the play's interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.