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Much Ado About Nothing Third Series

ISBN: 9781903436837 | 1903436834
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Pub. Date: 9/26/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice. This edition ... MORE
List of illustrationsix
General editors' prefacexii
Prefacexvii
Introduction1(144)
Building a play: sources and contexts
... MORE4(46)
The usual suspects: Ariosto and Bandello
5(6)
Shakespeare's transformations of his sources: the creation of a social world
11(2)
The maid
13(1)
'How many gentlemen?'
14(3)
The villain
17(2)
The lover
19(3)
Beyond the plot
22(1)
Denouement
23(3)
Dialogue and debate forms
26(2)
Sexual stereotypes
28(5)
Disdain
33(1)
Modifications of type
34(4)
Chaste, silent and obedient
38(3)
Hero
41(2)
Cuckolds
43(7)
Structure and style
50(28)
The course of true love'
51(7)
Two plots?
58(4)
Style
62(1)
Prose and the prosaic
63(2)
Euphuism
65(5)
Verbal handshakes
70(4)
'The even road of a blank verse'
74(1)
Image patterns
75(1)
Songs
76(2)
Staging Much Ado
78(41)
Tonal choices
80(4)
Social representations
84(14)
Choice of place and time
98(4)
Cultural moment
102(6)
Afterlives
108(2)
Origins
110(9)
Criticism
119(6)
Text
125(197)
First impressions
125(3)
Making a book
128(5)
Who's in, who's out
133(7)
Who gets to say what?
140(5)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING145(174)
Appendix: Casting chart319(3)
Abbreviations and references322(17)
Abbreviations used in notes
322(1)
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
322(2)
Editions of Shakespeare collated or referred to
324(2)
Other works cited
326(11)
Modern stage, film and television productions cited
337(2)
Index339
Claire McEachern is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has edited The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, and co-edited Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, as well as five volumes of the Pelican Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry IV, Henry V, King John, and All's Well That Ends Well). Her other previous publications include Poetics of English Nationhood 1590-1612.


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